Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Title Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Techniques PDF eBook
Author Robert Schleicher
Publisher
Pages 400
Release
Genre Model car racing
ISBN 9781610605045

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Over the past three years slot cars have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the hobby industry. Slot cars have also become so fashionable they have received exposure in automotive and general interest magazines. The time is right for a meaty, loaded follow-up to the highly successful 2002 MBI release, Slot Car Bible. In this new title, Bible author and Model Car Racing magazine publisher Robert Schleicher provides enthusiasts with more tips, tricks, and track plans for 1/32-scale and HO slot cars. This title will offer a wealth of tuning, maintenance, and driving technique information and will include chapters on snap-together raceways and building cars from kits. It will also have performance tests of new products and plans for creating NASCAR replica cars and tracks.

Speed Secrets

Speed Secrets
Title Speed Secrets PDF eBook
Author Ross Bentley
Publisher Motorbooks
Pages 160
Release 1998-08-13
Genre Transportation
ISBN 1610600010

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Shave lap times or find a faster line through your favorite set of S-curves with professional race driver Ross Bentley as he shows you the quickest line from apex to apex! With tips and commentary from current race drivers, Bentley covers the vital techniques of speed, from visualizing lines to interpreting tire temps to put you in front of the pack. Includes discussion of practice techniques, chassis set-up, and working with your pit chief.

Slot Car Racing in the Digital Age

Slot Car Racing in the Digital Age
Title Slot Car Racing in the Digital Age PDF eBook
Author Robert Schleicher
Publisher
Pages 244
Release
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 9781616732073

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Robert Schleicher wrote the book on slot car racing—literally. In the three short years since Schleicher’s Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Track Plans was published, the hobby has been virtually transformed by new products and technologies. This new volume, a perfect complement to its predecessor, brings readers and racers up to date, offering a concise, comprehensive overview of slot car racing’s developments, along with expert, practical guidance for putting this information to good use. A primer on the latest digital and analog developments for both 1/32 and HO scales, Schleicher’s book delivers the lowdown on building cars from individual components on ready-to-race chassis, as well as popular tune-up tips to get even more speed and better handling out of today’s cars. Schleicher also provides track tests of 70 cars and a slot-car shootout featuring 23 more vehicles. Finally, Schleicher includes nearly 50 track plans: 14 tabletop-size plans for Scalextric, Classic, Carrera, Sport, SCX, and Ninco brand track; 14 plans modeled on real circuits like Watkins Glen, Monaco, Spa-Francorchamps, Sears Point, and the Bahrain and Shanghai F1 courses; and 17 4x8-foot HO scale plans. Illustrated throughout with color photography and track plan line art, this is the book that no serious slot car racer can afford to be without.

Slot Car Bible

Slot Car Bible
Title Slot Car Bible PDF eBook
Author Robert Schleicher
Publisher
Pages 238
Release
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9781610606738

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This sensational slot car salute presents a wealth of information on beginning and advanced techniques for collecting, building, tuning, and duplicating the amazing little cars that were at the peak of their popularity in the 1960s and '70s. All the rage among youngsters and adults alike, slot cars and more than 50 track layouts duplicating famous circuts like Daytona. Indy and Monaco, are featured here in photographs that vividly recount the enthusiasm surrounding this popular hobby. Follows Schleicher's popular Racing and Collecting Slot Cars 0-7603-1024-6.

Ultimate Speed Secrets

Ultimate Speed Secrets
Title Ultimate Speed Secrets PDF eBook
Author Ross Bentley
Publisher Motorbooks
Pages 336
Release 2011-08-28
Genre Transportation
ISBN 161058273X

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Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals. Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to know to maximize your potential and your car: Choosing the correct line Overtaking maneuvers Adapting to new tracks and cars The mental game and dealing with adversity Finding (and keeping) a sponsor. The pages are filled with specially commissioned color diagrams to illustrate the concepts described. Whether you are a track-day novice or a seasoned professional, Ultimate Speed Secrets will arm you with practical information to lower your lap times and help you get the best out of your vehicle—and yourself. It’s the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!

Inner Speed Secrets

Inner Speed Secrets
Title Inner Speed Secrets PDF eBook
Author Ross Bentley
Publisher MotorBooks International
Pages 164
Release 2000-09-22
Genre Transportation
ISBN 9780760308349

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Techniques to help drivers overcome the mental barriers that prevent successful racing.

Racing and Collecting Slot Cars

Racing and Collecting Slot Cars
Title Racing and Collecting Slot Cars PDF eBook
Author Robert H. Schleicher
Publisher
Pages 134
Release
Genre Slot cars
ISBN 9781610606677

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Covers slot racing cars and tracks, how to duplicate real race tracks in scale, troubleshooting and performing maintenance on slot cars, racing terms, and how to organize a race event.