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  • November 7, 2011 at 8:18 PM #407
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      Calling All Drivers,

      I found a set of 1/32 scale car standards as authored by the Classic Slot Car Racing Association of the UK.

      I would suggest we use these standards as guidelines for establishing our new racing classes.

      Any thoughts or feedback?

      Thanks,

      Jim J.

      Attachments:
      1. CSCRA_1-32_Sports_Car_Standards_2011_020111.pdf
      2. CSCRA_1-32_Saloon_Car_Standards_2011_020111.pdf
      3. CSCRA_1-32_GP_Standards_2011_020111.pdf
      4. CSCRA_1-32_Brooklands_Standards_271010.pdf
      5. CSCRA_Race_Car_Time_Lines.pdf
      November 7, 2011 at 8:47 PM #1527
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        Interesting to see that they allow any type of motor for all classes.

        I think we could use some of the Sport Cars class 3 standards on our Mille Miglia class:

        • Motor orientation: Inline only.
        • Front wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 19mm, minimum width 5mm.
        • Rear wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 21mm, maximum width 7.5mm.
        • Minimum ground clearance 2mm.
        • Maximum overall width: 57mm.

        Sports Cars class 5 standards could be used on the Classic GT series:

        • Motor orientation: free.
        • Front wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 16mm, minimum width 6mm.
        • Rear wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 19mm, maximum width 12mm.
        • Minimum ground clearance 1.5mm.
        • Maximum overall width: 64mm.

        Now, they are classifying GT cars as: “A closed, hard top car with 2 or 2+2 seats and bodywork covering the wheels. Cars in this class would normally be based on road going, hard top, 2 or 2+2 seat production cars.”. Are we only allowing closed cars for our Classic GT Series? 

        November 9, 2011 at 6:41 AM #1528
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          I like the definitions of the classes and the rules are generally pretty simple.  

          A couple of things:

          1. I think we still want to limit the RPM of the motor. For example: Say you’re building a narrow chassis car that takes a FF-050 motor. There are FF-050 motors available that range from 10k to 39k RPM.  To keep speeds closer to a scale representation and field more even on available power we probably want to limit that to 14k.
          2. Just to be clear: we will run RTR and Scratch built together.  Not as separate classes. 

          BTW: That timeline document is pretty interesting.

          Build it strong.
          Keep it simple.
          Make it work.
                (Leroy Grumman)

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