Rally Slot Car Racing FTW!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5ARUJaZRY

SO. MUCH. WIN!

WANT!

BERKLEY YEAH!

How the hell do they keep the contacts clean?

If you guys want to do that without the mess, put scotch tape on the rear wheels of your slot car. Makes for awesome doritoes on slot car tracks. I have a set that used to have a jump that oscillated up and down (so depending on timing you may or may not hit it). Good times!

I can get my Carrera cars to drift like that without the dirt.

Very cool, but looks like high maintenance.

From what I've read, they use powdered sugar/cocoa, and aside from having to clean the car/engine (sorry motor, before some shiny happy person tries to point out the difference) a bit more often, it's not any harder on the track itself.

The Spanish have been doing it for years, enough so that SCX and NINCO have developed the textures of their track for it.

Ehhh...not as cool as the RC drifting I've seen somewhere...

ultraclyde wrote: Ehhh...not as cool as the RC drifting I've seen somewhere...

You know whats gayer than real drifting? RC drifting.

HiTempguy wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: Ehhh...not as cool as the RC drifting I've seen somewhere...

You know whats gayer than real drifting? RC drifting.

Where is that effing eleventybillion button?

though.. any RC car on ice is great fun. Does any group do RC ice racing?

HiTempguy wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: Ehhh...not as cool as the RC drifting I've seen somewhere...

You know whats gayer than real drifting? RC drifting.

You know what's gayer than that?

Slot car Drifting

turboswede wrote: You know what's gayer than that? Slot car Drifting

Good thing we are not slot car drifting, looks like we are rally slot car RACING .

One, you get scored for looks (subjectively), the other, you are scored for performance (objectively).

The slot car rally thing is almost enough to make me buy a setup.

Especially if you did set it up as a super special stage, where the cars start side-by-side and race around the track. Thanks to the new digital track, you can have 2 cars or more on one lane of track.

oh! Is that how the new ones work? Very cool

That is wicked cool!

I do have to wonder if I can get my original HO Scale Thunderjets to do that. They already tail-out around every corner, I just need to add brown sugar...

That was incredibly cool. Time for the GRM Racing League. I just got this:

mad_machine wrote: oh! Is that how the new ones work? Very cool

Depending on the system, you can have as many as 8 cars on two lanes.

With pushbutton lane switching and such, some is the systems allow for pit stops, affect vehicle dynamics depending on them loads