10 replies to this topic

[Michael Jr.]

I'm looking to host some races this summer during the slow down, that is unusual. If you've ever been in a race event that just doesn't fit with normal seasonal races, let's see if we can do it this summer. I want to experiment with some race events. So give me some ideas.

[Tim Wilkins]

Race 4 classes of cars in one event.  2 lanes each for an 8 lanes event.  Example:  Womps, flexi stock car, flexi can am, Indy car.  You can even throw in a low cost Wing car with an FK type motor installed.  Also, we once ran a King Track race in REVERSE that was a lot of fun.  We just switched the guide flag wires.

[MSwiss]

IROC is always fun, if you have good rental/birthday party cars.

 

Even more fun is IROC with driving 2 cars at once (on 2 different lanes)

 

Seeing someone nerf themselves, is fairly entertaining.

 

The only downside is that you have to manually tabulate the laps.

[Mike Patterson]

I remember one time at FasTrak raceway in Newark, Ohio, Mike Leach (the owner), had a race where we raced the same car on three different tracks: a King, a tri-oval and a UK Black. I think we ran GTP cars. IIRC, there was a write-up in Slotcar Bulletin about the race. 

[Tex]

Some years back, we raced one class at several different tracks all in the same day. We covered some miles tht day; it was a grind... but a lot of fun.

[Dennis David]

Have people Marshall their own cars

[Mr. M]

Night race with dimmed lights. Put different colored glow sticks under the body. You can see them when they go off. Alternatively crash and burn racing for something like 25 heats of 25 laps. You fall off, you loose the heat. Most heats won wins.

[Tony A.]

At Mobile Raceways we have run some interesting and different type of races.One type is what we call SLR(single lane racing).What this race is all entrants pick whatever car they want for instance a flexi,a womp,a wing car etc but only run that car on one lane.It is run as a normal rotational sprint race or mini enduro and you end up running a different car on each lane.It could be a poor handling car or an absolute rocketship.Another type of race is a not the slot car race.Any object for example a milk carton can be turned into a slot car by adding wheels,a motor and a guide.There have been some crazy contraptions that have been made,rubber spiders,dinosaurs,mini wheelie bins,etc have been created.Another different type of race,especially if your centre has 2 or more tracks is to hold a biathalon or triathalon where you run an enduro over all the tracks in the centre

[Dominator]

Run the track backwards one night. Just have the racers switch thier wires.

[Michael Jr.]

Run the track backwards one night. Just have the racers switch thier wires.

Is it old wive's tale that it's bad for braid on the track?

[Bill from NH]

Not an old wive's tale, but  it's only bad for braid if you run backwards a lot. Running backwards a few times a year won't hurt it. Braid takes a "wear set" depending upon the direction it's run on. Slide your finger along the braid in the "run direction", then slide your finger on the same braid section in the backwards direction. The backwards direction is much rougher. Cars running backwards will tend to wear this roughness off, thus wearing out the track braid sooner.