It was the mid-1960s, and it was all a bit mad. I bought one Airfix slot-car acing set, which grew into a 110-foot four-lane track made from Airfix pieces screwed onto several sections of chipboard ...

When he was 14, Ed Shorer loved nothing as much as slot car racing. All his free time and spare change were spent at the track, where he and his buddies, gripping hand-held electric controllers, raced ...

Concept designs often don't make good production vehicles. The more exciting ones tend to ignore regulations and convenience, favoring low-slung, flowing body lines that would be hell to mass-produce.

This video is no longer available. Long before the popularity of car racing video games, the slot car craze in the 1960s and ’70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models.

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

VSC is a game that allows you to accurately simulate the Consumer and Pro Slot Car racing environment. Play single or multiplayer, fully customise your cars, create your own tracks, and race at speeds ...

He’s 87 years old, but Londoner John Chance-Reed is still into racing cars. The ex-navy serviceman, now hard of hearing, is adept at accelerating down the straight, and easing up on corners so that ...