1 Lap Short – A Slotcar Blog

October 2010 will see all of the world’s top Eurosport racers converge on Mid-America Raceway in Chicago for the 2010 version of the ISRA World Championships.

The week will start off with the annual teams race, where top racers will pair up  and race “flexi” type cars together. From thereracing moves onto 32nd scale Formula One cars, then onto 32nd scale Eurosport, then onto the feature race, 1/24th scale Eurosport.

With entries from all of the worlds slotcar powerhouse countries like The Czech Republic, Sweden,  Norway, United Kingdom, Slovakia, New Zealand, Belgium, plus of course the USA it is sure to be one of the all time great slotcar clashes.

To get an idea of the track layout, here is a video form an unusual slotcar perspective, onboard.

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March is not far off now, so it’s time to start to get ready for the annual trip out to the oldest surviving slotcar raceway in the US in it’s original location, Tom Thumb in Columbus, Ohio.

The first annual Retro Revival and Reunion Race (R4 for short!) was held at Tom Thumb in 2008 and attracted record fields in all the classes run. In 2009 the event grew once again and I am happy to say I was a part of it for the first time.

The R4 is now recognized as one of the “major”  retro races in the US now along with the Sano in Chicago and Checkpoint Cup in Los Angeles, and attracts many of the worlds current top retro racers as well as many of the top names form the 60′s and 70′s.

Below is a video form the first event in 2008:

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