New MRRC cars!

MRRC is showing new cars on their website, the Cheetah is among them.

A passing

Alan Smith of Slot Car Illustrated has reported that John Robinson from MRRC has passed away. This is a really sad day. I had the pleasure of meeting John in 2009 at Toyfair in Germany and he was a wonderful person. He loved slots and it was great to have met him and talked with him via email for years.

You will be missed John.

Dave K
Slot Car News

Help... I'm going gray!!!!

No not my hair... my Ortmann's! Years ago all Ortmann tires where the much beloved "gray dust" tires. Well the formula had to be changed, and for a time the tires were the "blue dust" tires. They weren't quite as well received. But now, now friends and neighbors it seems the latest Ortmann's or at least the dust you get when you sand the tires is... unmistakeably... GRAY!!!!

Is the compound the same? No, I've had the good fortune to exchange emails with Michael Ortmann himself and according to Mr. Ortmann the compound is not the same. But in some very informal testing I've done this afternoon after the box o' tires I bought arrived directly from him, I can say they sure feel good. I bought tires for the MRRC Porsche 910 and for many of the vintage Carrera 124's. They grip like the Ortmann's of old and they sand easily. I'm very happy to have that old familiar tire back again... even if it's different... maybe. :)

To contact Michael Ortmann and request order forms and order direct:
michael.ortmann@gmx.de

Chicago 24 racing coverage link

Chicago 24 coverage on Slot Car Illustrated.
http://slotcarillustrated.com/portal/forums/showthread.php?p=376066

MRRC/IBB at Slotlandia

The internals of the new Scaleauto chassis which will be under the new 1/24 Porsche's.

New MRRC Ford and Chaparral set due soon

MRRC's red GT40 coming in July

Production In July By MRRC. There will also be a light blue Cobra produced as well.

New MRRC Lamborghini's

Some new Lambo's on the way soon from MRRC.

New MRRC cars next month

The following cars will be available next month.

MC0043 Chaparral 2C (car3 white/brown body)

MC0044 King Cobra (car97 orange body)

MC0041 Porsche 904 (car37 silver body)

DS Test Bench and new controller

DS is coming out with a revolutionary controller. It's based on the new MRRC controller and is quite a surprising thing that DS has done. The features are listed in the photo but something that struck me was that it's probably the next step in this hobby being a solid sport. You can adjust the sensitivity, braking, everything that you've come to expect in a high end controller for serious competition. But most importantly...telemetry, it keeps a record of all the settings on the controller and the braking and throttle position for each lap. So if you're someone that either needs a starting point to know where to start to set up your controller (the system and software provided with the controller give you that info) or whether you're fine tuning your lap times and need to see exactly where you might be able to pick up a bit of time on the track. Is this information needed for slot racing? Strictly speaking, no. But, if you're serious about racing, this controller can give you that extra bit of information that could make a difference. It's a progression, an evolution.

The controller is connected to a laptop via a wifi connection that connects to both a PC and MAC (thank goodness for a MAC too!) via a USB antenna. The controller will connect to the USB antenna and the antenna will support many controllers so a club (or individual) will only have to buy 1 antenna to support use of up to 20 (I'm pretty sure that's the number) controllers.

The DS Testing Bench does just about everything that you could want it to do to help you set up a car for racing. Magnetic downforce, rpm testing, a bench for setting up your car. A prototype was on display at the toyfair in Nurnberg and hopefully soon we'll see this unique bench for sale.

New MRRC cars on the way

I'm reliably informed that the MRRC Porsche 910, Chaparral, and Ford GT40 MkIV are on the way from China to the slotting world.

New MRRC Lamborghini's green and yellow

A pair of MRRC Lambo's to show from iHobby.

New MRRC Ford GT Mk.IV

An update about the Ford. This car will be available in a twin pack with the #6 Chaparral and it will have a single contact braid configuration not this doubled over braid.

New MRRC Porsche 904

Photos taken this weekend at iHobby showing the new MRRC Porsche 904. This is a prototype and the production car will be a deeper red from what I understand.

New MRRC King Cobra deco's

Photos from iHobby of the new MRRC King Cobra. These are pre-production prototype photos of the cars that were shown at the REH display. The car's shown have the first version of the Sebring chassis that MRRC makes. I understand there is a new version of the chassis that will be used with these releases and not the first version.