Hill Experiment (with Test Track)

Was a success, the thing totaled out at about 15 feet, So I'm certain the Spa will be 15 feet til the "plateau"and another 8 or so before descending again.
The test track is super racy, check it out

And the In Car

Tonight's Track

The Bullring, I think it would be fun with about 10 B tracks each side, otherwise too easy, 3.7 with sagged batts, FWIW, also some Hill pix. more later,glue drying.

More Spa info

No track tonight (so far) I'm strengthening my banks and working on the hill experiment.
I watched some video and took a good look at the track, it's going to be a tough build, and BAD ASS! when finished, take a look here. The elevation changes I can deal with but the gaps between make cliffs, so it must be addressed,(think about it). And since it's going into my Big Garage, there may be room for another short track on the infield, Yippeee!

Hills

I really want to do Spa in Belgium,it's one my all time favorite tracks to race, but it Requires some hills, so I started experimenting and came up with this, so far

0 to 10 inches in 84 inches, which it good, I still need another 84 inches at 10 inches tall, then make that right turn you see, then Descend. Spa will need a hillside to do it right, so maybe a Landscaped hill will do the trick, we shall see

Oops

I missed the Saturday Track, Cause we raced til 3 AM!So here we go...
                                                                 This one actually sucked

But this one rocks!

Martinsville and Left hand racing

Can't make left turn track eh? watch this, Martinsville Speedway, video below

Remember Friday nite at the Drag strip? I do

So Z said "Dragstrip" and here you are, 3.00 time with sagged Batteries.I used two strips of Black duct tape and a piece of White printer paper for the finish, and it worked.

Course D'Elegance

This one is real fun, almost what I'm looking for in a track

Unknown Track

Forgot pix and map, fun track

Extra track Update

Chutes and Ladders, 23 turns, not pieces but individual turns, until my Garage is cleared, I don't think I can get much bigger and still be racy, this thing however is very fast cept for one spot you can see in  a picture below.
I Will continue In Car Cam! Back story... Purple Truck is essentially cheating, so we don't Race with it, it's primarily a track tester or a noobie car, but now it's also the new in car vehicle, my Buddie Q said it would be cool to see the back view so check it out below!

City Streets

my Son wanted straight and square, here you go, City Streets, 15.60 Lap time.

Probably my last in car for now, I think the car maybe suffering a bit.

Tuesday Tracknology

I built a mean one,not that fun, the left turns are killer

                                                   
                                                   

   Behold, the Dragon

Track and Gradient

As you can see, RealFX and Hot Wheels track mix well, they are almost identical, and physically they are, but here are the differences.Different Manufacturers, different Gradient prints, So now I match turns as much as possible to keep the Gradient true, and it works.Both Companies make good stuff, just a little different, so if you see your car wiggling where it shouldn't, it might be the track

Car care and stuff

Take off your body and Clean the dust off with a brush, I use a soft hobby brush.
Check for hair in the axles, and make sure everything rolls freely.
I had The Truck go haywire last night after a hard hit into a wall, so when I took a real close look I noticed some very small debris UNDER the sensor cover. I then took a #11 Xacto knife and VERY GENTLY lifted the front of the sensor cover and blew the debris clear, now the Truck runs Sweet! WARNING! this will probably void your warranty, but it might fix an otherwise worthless car sitting in your garage

Today's Track

Simple Variation of my theme for a speed track, fun, and rather short, looking for a sub 10 second lap, current is 10.11

IN Car Cam!

Camera car racing with AI

RACE!

Not really competitive but a learning experience to be sure.

Passing is hard with a Barn door attached to your car,

boy it was fun, and obviously I won, still what a hoot.

Camera Car

Pinch

Pinch other view

New track and more In Car Footage

I usually spend Sunday morning reading, listening to Classical music and building tracks no one will race, here's the latest, We'll call it Piston, very long, intricate but surprisingly quick, I threw a 20.09 in the Truck and a 21.5 with the Cam Car. BTW I use the Blue "CamaroStang" and mount my phone between the hood scoop and Windshield, very stable on the car and the Car itself handles the load well,

ABAIG

                                                           Some video

                              

In car cam!

I taped my Phone to the Camarostang and

ended up about 1 second off the record while racing AI,

With a phone strapped to the top,LOL?

I'm sure the driver has serious back injuries

Saturday Nite!

First, here are the new tracks, Question and Answer
The Question was real fun for me, but most didn't like the tight opening turns, so I scrapped it and built the Answer, real fast with a small trick

Question

Question

Answer

Answer

Tips For New guys

If you see all my tracks and all you have is a starter pack,no worries
The biggest part of making a racy track is the corners, if you only have T and U separate them like TVT or TTU, and spread out, meaning use all of your space, it mentally makes it a bigger track,really.
 Buy the RealFX Expansion pack, it's about 40$ on Amazon and has enough straight track to make some good high speed tracks.
If you want to really race you need the Pro Builders pack, the Long Radius turns are what turn this into an entire RACING SYSTEM, Good Luck and Thanks for viewing
Bob

A big race!

We mostly do practice laps and race against the clock, which is a lot of fun for Bragging rights but the real test is racing. We have only raced a 30 lap a few times and  Last night decided on a 50 lap race, (I have never finished above last)so away we go.
After practice and 17 second avg. laps away we go, and I screw up and go down 2 laps, crap.
So I went into Racing Zen mode, Focus, Left right, hard right, Left over and over, "lap 22"
and I keep on. Chuck and Zander have been fighting each other the whole time, so by lap46 I pass Chuck for the lead and never looked back, I finally won!
The Point: Don't panic if you get behind, and FOCUS. Everyone had a great time racing, really racing, not just stuck in a slot
Bob

What I actually own

Kinda important if you want to build some of these tracks so I have,
2 Hot Wheels AI starter kits
2 RealFX Expansion packs
1 RealFX Pro builders pack
4 HW cars and the HW Truck, a must own IMO
100 pieces of track for about 112 ft total and I can't use it all in my 9'x20' room.
I will be expanding to the Garage after I "rearrange" it but not yet, Circuit Gille Villwhatshisname is over 27 feet long!

K and the Verge

Time for Today's Track(s) First up is K, as in Que? as in What?
Boring track, not as racy as it looks, it ended up awkward as it were oh well next...
The Verge. I took a few elements from K and made a faster, bigger track with a completely banked technical section, very racy 13.12 sec Lap, so far...

K

K

Verge

Verge

Banking close up

Functional pits

I have 2 sets of Bottleneck so I matched Gradient and created a larger pit lane, enabling a Le Mans type start, as well as parking, I dig it.

Thursday Bonus Track

I came home from a call and saw tape where it should not be, then Son says "Dude, new track? Duh..." his first, call it the Ripper

then Pops came Home and built this, I call it Infield

Revision, I removed a V and added it to the short chute, can you tell?

Makes much more speed

I'm going to Write something for Beginners/new guys to help with design even if you don't have a huge amount of track, it's all about turn layout, :)

New Track

I call this one Overspeed, fast with an overpass and some tricky sections

The pattern is

Overspeed ABBRRBBRBBBBBBBBSSSSSUBVBBTTRBUVBBXUUUURRBRTT

14.68 Lap time

Some Twister Video

My son on Twister

And me on my crappy Tablet video

New track in a little while

New tracks Every Day!

I build new tracks every day and since I'm now Blogging I'll post pix, track editor views and(lap times when possible).We also do custom paint jobs and plan on some new bodies as we progress, We being my Son and I.
 I noticed over the years of slot racing that just because a track Looks like the real one, it rarely races like one, as in, they don't scale well.So I have learned to "open" them up, more sweeper turns, straights and whatnot to try and get them scale racy, IYKWIM.
My Monza post is a good example.
 I see that folks are taking a look at this, that was my hope, we need more Community if we want this to survive, so if Anyone has a request, comment or critique please do so, I'll see if I can help you,
Second place is First loser

Twister

I wanted a simple, fast Psycho kinda track, and wanted to use my Home made crossover, I think it's a kick in the pants, timing is everything here,take a look.

Twister

Notice the changes from my layout?

More Straights!

The view from my seat