'Viva Womp Vegas' 2017 Race Report

29 Sportsman and Legends cars were on hand for the AWRA Viva WOMP Vegas! event at Slot Car City in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

The racing was fast and close, and when the dust settled, two racers became first-time AWRA event winners.

Dan Riner took the checkers in the Sportsman Expert class with 183 laps. Freddie Forte was second, finishing on the lead lap, just behind Riner. Jeffrey Bernstein was a strong third, just two laps down from the leaders, stopping three feet before the counter. 

Twelve year old DJ Stubbs paced the field in Advanced Sportsman, winning by one lap over San Diego regular "Fast" Eddie Tarango. 

In Legends action, Freddie Forte led the parade, followed by Dan Riner. Tim Wood, another San Diego racer, held on for third.

Dan Riner and Freddie Forte not only notched their first AWRA win, but the both avoided the dreaded AWRA TQ curse, which has claimed numerous victims. 

Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to Mick Antonelli for hosting a first class event.

Results- Race 9 of the AWRA New Jersey Legends Summer Series

Vinnie Wisniewski extended his point lead and picked up his record 7th win in race 9 of the AWRA New Jersey Legends Summer Series for kids 5 to 12 years of age. With the summer series winding down, it is safe to say that Blake Maher, who finished second, and who is second in points, will not be able to close the gap. Bryce Airey finished third and closed the points gap between he and Dakota Curry, who finished fourth, Emerson Curry came home in fifth, and picked up a point on Neil Matthews, who is sixth in points. 

Here is how they finished

1. Vinnie Wisniewski 111 laps
2. Blake Mahar 101 laps
3. Bryce Airey 100 laps
4. Dakota Curry 95 laps
5. Emerson Curry 55 laps

AWRA New Jersey Legends Points Standings

1. Vinnie Wisniewski 36 points
2. Blake Mahar 27 points
3. Dakota Curry 17 points
4. Bryce Airey 11 points
5. Emerson Curry 7 points
6. Neil Matthews 5 points

AWRA Events Update - September- November 2017

Kingston Speedway will be hosting the Corby's Alignment 500, Saturday September 2nd.

American Adrenaline Speedway will be hosting Womp Extravaganza II, Saturday September 2nd.

Slot Car Raceway California will be hosting the AWRA Event 'Thunder In The West' Saturday September 16th.

VT Raceway will be hosting the 'Destroy All Wompsters' event Saturday September 30th.

The Slot Track at Concord will be hosting the 'Fall Classic' Saturday November 4th.

Thunder Road Raceway will be hosting the AWRA Event 'Fall Brawl' Saturday November 18th.

For more information on these events, contact the host raceways or visit the AWRA Facebook Page.

B&E Slotsport Hobby Stock Chassis Now Shipping

B&E Slotsport is now shipping two models of pre-built 1/24 chassis for the Mid-American Hardbody Series new 'Hobby Stock' class that will begin in the fall of 2017.

Hobby Stock is intended to be a starter class for those who are interested in hardbody racing but do not yet have the skill level to compete in the existing classes.

These chassis are ready to go- all you need is to add the body and interior of your choice.

4.5 " wheelbase B&E Crusader based Hobbystock chassis are $112 retail. The Eliminator based Hobbystock chassis is $125 retail. Eliminator Hobbystock chassis shown below.

Additional options are available on request. B&E offers a 'blueprinted' version of both of the above chassis for an additional cost. Please contact B&E with your needs.

Mid-America Raceway Naperville is a stocking dealer of B&E Slotsport products and has the 'Crusader' Hobby Stock chassis (shown below) available.

HO Scale Racing Arrives at Mid-America Raceway Naperville

Mid-America Raceway Naperville recently purchased the 8-lane Puma HO Routed track from Slot Car Raceway California.

Here are some photos of the new track in the raceway:

The 1986 and 1988 HO Western States Championships races were held on this track when it was located at Speedway & Hobby in Kent, WA.

Speedzone NJ Announces Kids Racing Series

Speedzone NJ Raceway and Hobbies located in Mt. Holly New Jersey will be starting a racing series for kids aged 5-12 years old in association with the American Womp Racing Association.

The rules will follow the AWRA 'Legends' class which uses bodies styled after the full-scale 'Legends' racers which are intended to be an entry level racing class.

Please contact Speedzone NJ at their Facebook Page or phone them at 609-702-0146 for more details.

AWRA 2017-2018 Season Begins with August Triple Header

The AWRA is a sanctioning body for WOMP slot car competition. 

The goal is to set up a standardized set of rules that will be adopted nationwide to govern WOMP racing in the United States.

Three races have been added to the 2017-2018 Season calendar so far.

The AWRA returns to Marietta, Georgia and Cordle Model Speedway on Saturday, August 5th. 2017. The AWRA WOMP Legends and the AWRA Sportsman WOMPS will race on the 80' oval and the Hillclimb, respectively, and then the new AWRA WOMP Stock Cars will vie for the AWRA WOMP Georgia State Stock Car Championship.

Slot Car City in Las Vegas, Nevada will host the AWRA Viva WOMP Vegas! The track will open at 12:00 noon, and racing will begin at 3:00 PM. AWRA Sportsman and Legends cars will be on the program.

For more information- visit: AWRA Facebook Page.

Professor Motor News - June 2017

When Revell-Monogram stopped making 1/32 slot cars a few years ago, model racing enthusiasts lost some of the nicest looking slot cars on the market. Perhaps they didn't perform on the track as well as they looked, but they did have a very interesting range of cars with superb detailing.

Professor Motor has purchased the slot car tooling, and after a couple of years spent developing new chassis and running gear they are now getting some prototypes into production.

Here are some early test shots of the Greenwood Corvette, Plymouth GTX NASCAR, and Shelby GT-350.

It is my understanding that the first in the Professor Motor slotcar line to be produced will be the 1965 Ford Galaxie NASCAR which Professor Motor is asking for suggestions on what decoration to use.

Slot Car News will keep you informed when there is more news and a release schedule.

Goodspeed News May 2017

GOODSPEED IS CLOSING 

Over the last 12 years, many 1:32 racers have enjoyed competing regularly at Goodspeed in downtown Kalamazoo and contributed to the ongoing success of the four lane Scalextric track. Great friendships have been made along with lots of great memories. 

The building at 244 E. Michigan has now been sold and the deal will close in a week or so. Unfortunately, the new owner's plans will not allow Goodspeed to remain in the basement after the middle of June. So plans have been made to shut it down with two big events.

Thursday 5/11 This was going to be the Touring Car Enduro, but now it is going to be two of our most popular classes; C12 Trans Am and C22 Modern GT1. Both C12 and C22 has 200 gram magnet limits.

C12 Trans Am (1967-1971) 200 grams

Carrera; Cuda
Pioneer; Camaro, Mustang
Scalextric; Camaro, Cougar, Challenger, Mustang, Javelin

C22 Modern GT1 200 grams

Auto Art: Lamborghini Diablo GT3
Carrera: Corvette C6
Fly; Porsche 911 EVO, Porsche 911 GT198 (not the “Racing” version), Viper, Saleen SR7R, Ferrari F40, Dodge Viper
Ninco Mosler MT900R, EVO Genie,
Policar; Ferarri F40 LM
Scalextric; Ford GT, Jaguar XKRS, Aston Martin DBR9, Maserati MC12, Corvette C5R & C6R
SCX; Aston Martin DBR9

The track will open at 6 PM, tech at 7 PM and racing immediately after. 

Saturday May 20 Goodbye to Goodspeed Special Event. This will be a general hot lapping, B.S. session so bring any and all your cars to finish it off. We will shoot a group photo between 1 & 2 PM. Track will open at 9 AM until the last person goes home.

The dissembling of Goodspeed will start on Sunday May 21 at 1 PM. Any and all help will be appreciated.

Note: It is likely that this track will be relocated at some time- there is no further information on where and when available at this time.

CG Slotcars Announces Autocoast Ti22 Can-Am 1/32 RTR

CG Slotcars plan to release the Autocoast Ti22 Can-Am in 2017 as a RTR 1/32 slot car.

These photos are of the first prototype and it is very close to being ready - production will start shortly.

The first production built slot car will be raffled off during the 7th Annual Michigan 24hr race April 1-2. The raffle winner will receive the car before anyone else. If you want the chance to own it - please consider donating to the annual charity raffle held during the race. All of the proceeds from the raffle are split among the teams entered and the money is donated to that teams charity. 

More details and a link to the list of prizes are here: Slot Racers Giving Back Raffle

If you don't win the car - or the other great prizes we have donated - there are other great prizes to be won! You just donate to enter.

This car (like the others CG Slotcars have done) has a fascinating history. There were two Ti22's built and both (unfortunately) were destroyed. A 1:1 replica of the Ti22 has recently been completed and is expected to compete in the Can-Am reunion race as part of the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend.

The Ti22 designer Peter Bryant eventually went to work with Shadow. Maybe we'll tell that story with a slotcar in the future!

Mossetti Racing Reveals New 1/24 Stamped Steel Chassis Line

After a series of 'teaser' photos, the updated 2017 Mossetti Patriot 1/24 chassis have been introduced.

These chassis should be available for purchase from your local raceway or wholesaler no later than April 10th.

Inside the Long Awaited Scalextric Penske Javelin Trans-Am

Here are a couple of quick shots "inside' the Scalextric Penske Javelin Trans Am along with my notes.

At first glance the Scalextric 'New Generation' Inliner DPR Chassis
seems to offer little truly new but closer inspection
reveals interesting details.

The front and rear tyres/hubs are different widths
There is a LED light board for the tail lights
Three attachment screws where we were
led to believe that all new generation chassis
would have only two attachment screws.

Here we see that the guide blade is a new deeper design

The Scalextric 'New Generation' body inside
shows the tray-style interior (note driver position)
Reinforced front spoiler supports
Separate body to chassis locator brackets

Long Awaited Scalextric Penske Javelin Trans-Am (finally) Breaks Cover!!

After being delayed for so long that some enthusiasts felt it might have been canceled, the first decoration of the long awaited Javelin Trans-Am, the Penske / Donohue / Sunoco version, should be hitting dealers shelves in North America as you read this.

Samples of the two other Javelins to come in 2017 were shown at a European toy show in January.

All of the versions currently announced by Scalextric are:

C3731 #6   Penske Racing / Mark Donohue

C3875 #1   Roy Woods Racing / George Follmer

C3776 #63 Jockos Racing / Bill Collins

As soon as photos of the chassis and running gear are available we will publish them here. The chassis is expected to be Scalextric's latest generation DPR chassis with inline motor and gearing.

2017 USRA Division 2 National Championships

Pioneer Plans New Addition to the "Dukes of Hazzard" line in 2017

This is a pre-production prototype of Rosco's patrol car that Pioneer Slot Cars plans to release in 2017. 

It will be a 1/32 scale slot car and fit in quite nicely with their Dukes of Hazzard Chargers.  

As any Dukes fan will tell you, Rosco's patrol car is the perfect companion to Pioneer's General Lee.  

The Patrol Car will come complete with a figure of Rosco P. Coltrane behind the wheel...

And ol' Velvet Ears herself, Flash riding shotgun.  No release date has been announced for this car other than "planned for 2017".  

Information as we receive it from Pioneer will be posted here.

Photos courtesy of Pioneer Slot Cars.