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 ...

Don’t blink – you may miss the action. You’re about to see what could be the fastest car slot race ever and trust us… if you follow it too closely you’re bound to get dizzy. This eight-track slot car ...

Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, ...

Remember slot cars? In the dark ages before simulators, video games, and even personal computers, there was hardly a boy in America who didn't race slot cars. Set up on the living room floor, a dining ...

The builds and blueprints are not something found online in one of those how-to YouTube videos, either. “Just because I was doing it and people were buying them, a lot of guys would say, ‘I can make ...

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.

If you enjoy a good slot car race, you will already know that part of the skill is being able to race around the track as fast as possible without your car flying off at the corners. Something I still ...

Drivers prepare for the countdown, analyzing every hill and curve in the track. The room is filled with anticipation, the smell of rubber, the humming of engines and an anxious crowd. Seven model-size ...

Race night at the Capital City Raceway in Pataskala is always a night of fun. We are talking about Slot Car Drag Racing. The cars are 1/24th 1/25th scale and they look and run just like their big ...