CARRERA SLOT CAR TRACK

leblanc said
WOW!! Very cool and more, did you ever think of building a race track from scratch and have long stretches where cars could really wind or unwind? I had a friend back in my early teens who had one, lots of fun specially when you have cars that handle like they should.

Thanks leblanc. The layout I've got does have some pretty long straightaways but I'd still like to eliminate a bunch of the curves. There are several reasons why I do like the long straight sections where you can really get on the throttle more. - For one thing, it's easier to keep the cars from coming off the track so often and interrupting the action. - Another thing I like about having longer straights is that you don't feel as though you have to 'putt around' the course so much.

All that having been said, I tried to utilize all of the track pieces I had and this is the layout I came up with. It'd be tempting to buy more straight sections now to replace many of my curved sections but I'd really like to convert this system over to digital so I could run 6 cars on it at the same time and include a pace car, pit section, etc... The changeover would be pretty costly if I include all the bells & whistles I'd want and I'd be swapping out many of my present track pieces with ones to accommodate the conversion. - So until I'm ready to go digital it'll probably stay as is.

Building a track 'from scratch' would probably make it more difficult to tweak things while I'm still trying to figure out the layout I'll never feel like changing again and would be harder to transport to another location if we ever finish the other house we're working on. For now, I'm having a blast with what's here.