RETRO ALL STARS and INVITATIONAL Race

Everyone is INVITED!!! The RETRO ALL STARS and INVITATIONAL Race is two groups of drivers.... ALL STARS and INVITATIONAL. Drivers on the All Star list race only in the All Stars group and drivers not on the All Stars list run in the Invitational group.

All Stars and Invitational Qualifying and Race Format:

All Drivers will qualify by "Laps and Sections". Each driver will run for one minute and their total laps and sections will be recorded and will be their official qualifying run.

Drivers will be seeded into the qualifying mains by their lap and sections totals. Invitational Drivers will run in their own group of drivers and the All Stars will run in their own group of drivers.

Example: if there is 40 drivers, the Top 8 lap and section totals will be in the A qualifying main, the next 8 in the B, next 8 in the C, next 8 in the D and the final 8 in the E.

The Qualifying mains will be ran 3 minutes on and 2 minutes off. After all qualifying mains have been run, the Top 8 Lap and Section totals will advance to the Main Event for each group of Invitational and All Star drivers.

Order of events Saturday April 11 Can Am-FK Sunday April 12 F1/Indy-FK

• Qualifying for Invitational drivers followed by qualifying for All Star drivers

• Race Invitational Qualifying Mains

• Race All Star Qualifying Mains

• Race Invitational Main Event

• Race All Star Main Event

• All Star Main Event Drivers will marshal Invitational Main Event and Invitational Main Event Drivers will Marshal the All Star Can Am Event.

• Awards Presentations

This is a 2015 RETRO National Championship Series Points Event

Track Records/
Invitational Records:

F1 Bud Bartos 11.195
CA Bud Bartos 12.114

F1 Troy Johnson 283
CA Bud Bartos 286

All Star Records:

F1 Ron Hershman 12.032
CA Willy Custer 12.034

F1 Ron Hershman 285
CA Willy Custer 289

Great Lakes RETRO Series Announcement

Great Lakes RETRO Race # 7 will be held on April 18, 2015 at Real Speed Raceway in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Great Lakes RETRO Race # 8 ( the final 2014-15 points race ) will be held at Mid America Raceway and Hobbies in Bloomington, IL May 2, 2015 and will be a "Combo" Event with the Mid American Hardbody "Super Stock 1000" Event.

So Retro racers get your Hard Bodies ready and Hard Body racers get your Retro cars ready.

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BRM F-512M Preview

Expected in dealer stocks sometime in the second half of 2015 will be BRM Model Cars' 1/24 Scale F-512M (nee "Ferrari"). 

"Yellow Team"
(Ecurie Francorchamps and Escuderia Montjuich)

"Red Team"
(Scuderia Filipinetti and N.A.R.T #12)

N.A.R.T/Penske 1971 LeMans
M. Donohue / D. Hobbs

These pre-production renderings were provided by BRM showing the 3 versions presently planned of this model.

More information: http://www.brmmodelcars.com

New Book Available Now On Slot Car History

A new 798 page English text book on the history of Slot Cars, with particular focus on the 1960's is now available from Oliver Brandt and Slotcarbooks publishing.

The book contains:

• History of the manufacturers
• Photos of the vast majority of commercially available cars, boxes, kits and chassis produced in the United States, Japan, Germany, England and Italy
• Advertisement and rare catalog pages
• Vintage track tests of the most famous cars in that era
• Comprehensive listings of cars and bodies produced in the sixties
• Overview of magazines and books from that era
• Dealer displays, dynamometers, commercial race tracks and much, much more…

For more information or to place an order: Slotcarbooks Website

Quick Slicks Now Offers 19 New Tires

Quick Slicks has expanded their line-up of high-performance 1:32 and 1:24 silicone slot car tires to include 19 new tires. This brings the total number of Quick Slicks available to almost 50 with more planned in the near future. Whereas the initial release of Quick Slicks focused on tires for popular aftermarket "set screw" aluminum wheels (e.g. C.B. Design, Slot.it, NSR), the newly released Quick Slicks are specifically designed to fit stock wheels on a variety of popular slot car manufacturers including Carrera, FLY, Ninco and Scalextric. For a complete listing of Quick Slicks including the cars/wheels they they fit, please download the Quick Slicks Fitment Summary.

If you are a retail hobby store or commercial raceway and would like to offer Quick Slicks to your customers, please contact us.  We offer an attractive Authorized Dealer Program including professional packaging. Please note that Quick Slicks will not undersell our Authorized Dealers.

New Mossetti Retro Chassis Kit/RTR

HEI and RPM Race Cars is proud to Announce the release of this new 1/24 Retro Can Am Brass/Steel Chassis Kit

.040" Hardened Brass throughout. No soft "butter brass" here.

EDM cut parts. No machined, stamped parts. EDM parts are flatter, stress free and precision fitting every time.

Pinned Steel Guide Tongue with spacer. Pinned for precision fit and alignment. No need for a guide reinforcement. Less weight and less time building.

Available with 3/4" wide or 1' wide motor brackets in .040" thickness.

Kit includes: Nose, Guide Tongue, spacer, bat pans and rear motor bracket. 

Retail Price 60.00 each. RTR Chassis will be available for 145.00 ea retail.

Available only through HEI/RPM

Designed by Ernie Mossetti, Legendary Designer and Builder of 1/24 and 1/32 Euro Sport Chassis, 1/32 F1 Chassis, 1/24 Wing Car Chassis, 1/24 Production Chassis and 1/32 Homeset Cars and Chassis.

Specifications:

• Total kit weight is 45.2 with regular Motor Bracket
• Retail is $60.00 U.S.
• Nose Piece- Vertical Uprights to mount axle are 2.08” Overall width apart. Adjustable axle position 14.5 grams
• Pans (2) 22.2 grams
• Guide tongue and spacer 3 grams
• Motor Bracket Regular – Max overall width is .762” 3 grams
• Motor Bracket Wide – Max overall width is 1.360” 4 grams
• Weight insert under Rear Axle 2.5 grams
• Guide Tongue is .035” Spring Steel Laser cut
• Tongue and spacer “Pin” into Nose Piece with .032” Brass rod
• Bearing/Bushing fit directly into Motor Bracket - .188” Size hole
• Brass is Precision Formed in Fixtures
• Motor Brackets allow Optional position (Oval hole) adjustment – Highest position is in line with Axle, lowest position is flush with chassis bottom - .050” Movement
• Axle centerlines of Motor Brackets is .354” Above the deck (.710” Jig wheel) - .810” Tires gives .050” Clearance

 More information and ordering: http://www.fastones.net

Quick Slicks Announces New Compound

Quick Slicks is expanding their high-performance silicone tire line-up with a second compound.  Initially introduced in a soft compound, Quick Slicks are now available in an "Extra-Firm" compound.  By offering multiple compounds, Quick Slicks will give racers more options when selecting a tire compound to match their racing surface, track layout, chassis setup, race strategy and driving style.  The new Quick Slicks compound has undergone extensive development and testing in conjunction with several 1/32 slot car world and national champions and world record holders.  Additional compounds are planned for the future.

If you are a retail hobby store or raceway and would like to carry Quick Slicks, we offer an attractive Authorized Dealer program.  Please note we will not undersell our Dealers.  Contact us at QuickSlicks2014[at]gmail.com (replace the "[at]" with "@") for more information.

Quick Slicks Features

• Made in U.S.A. using high-precision CNC machined molds.
• Currently available in two (2) state-of-the-art silicone compounds – “Soft” and “Extra-Firm”.
• Available to fit many popular 1:32 Euro-Style aluminum and magnesium “set screw” wheels from a wide variety of manufacturers including C.B. Design, NSR, Slot.it and Sloting+.   Initially Quick Slicks^TM are available in 27 sizes with more planned for the near future.
• Quick Slicks^TM provide excellent grip on all racing surfaces – plastic or wood (painted).  The cleaner the racing surface, the better the grip.
• Slip-on or Glue/true – the choice is yours.  If you’re a casual racer, gluing is not required - you can simply slip-on a pair of Quick Slicks^TM and start racing.  If you are a more serious racer and prefer to “glue and true” your tires for maximum performance, Quick Slicks^TM work very well with a silicone adhesive such as Permatex Ultra Black.
• If you do decide to go the (optional) glue/true route, the Quick Slicks “Soft” compound requires less effort to do so than other silicone tires.  Same goes for (optionally) adjusting the profile where the sidewall and contact patch meet.
• Rounded outer sidewalls on all Quick Slicks^TM give them a realistic appearance like real tires.  The rounded outer sidewalls appear realistic regardless of a given tire’s outer diameter (o.d.) – no unrealistic, bulging sidewalls.
• Quick Slicks^TM designed for a specific wheel are the same width regardless of outer diameter – an important consideration when rules require tires to fit under the car body and you want to experiment with different tire diameters.
• Quick Slicks^TM are affordable.  In fact, they typically cost $1.00 - $2.00 per pair less than other 1:32 silicone tires (our 1:24 tires are up to $4.00 per pair less).  This is often an important consideration whether you race alone or participate in club/organized racing.
• We offer an exclusive Quick Slicks^TM Tire Selector to assist you to identify which Quick Slicks^TM fit a given manufacturer/model wheel.  Still not sure which Quick Slicks^TM you need for a particular application?  Give us a call (or drop us an email) and we’ll do our best to assist you.