How does a Scalextric car actually work?

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

Sees "scalextric" and "DRIVETRIBE" expects to see James May...

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

@@Aj-894 i understood everything James May said and im not an engineering student...

[@mikehinton7]

@@Aj-894 you are so smart, I had to turn the video off when James came on because I don't go to an engineering academy

[@incandescentwithrage]

@@Aj-894 Spotted the wanker!

[@SlotCarNewsOfficial]

Did you watch it? He's in the video...

[@stevenmacdonald9619]

This fella is the apprentice James May. I've just watched the 3 part, fixing the Cardiff Castle Hornby train series on here. It was like watching father and son working together. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. I very relaxing and educational couple of hours. I now know the power of the 'geography of parts' 😁

[@upsidedown4155]

Had a mighty metro kit when i was a kid, I used to lift the back of the car up slightly with my hand and full throttle it, Give it a decent burnout, Melt the tyres and the track so it looked like it was covered with inverted speed humps lol

[@ben_bennie_nie]

Hammond would love these cars. Finally something his size :D

[@michaelclarke1832]

Some of my earliest and greatest memories. I had a Porsche set for my first ( I forget the name of it), and still have the cars. I got back into it 6 years ago as an adult using digital setups and have loved every minute.

[@9thFRS]

Love slot cars, and currently close to 800 in my collection. My favorite is a 3-car boxed set of the 1970 Porsche 917's in Gulf colors from the 1970 Le Mans 24 hrs., made by FLY some years ago. About 175 of so of my cars are from Scalextric. The new Digital ARC PRO system is what I run, and Scalextric did a great job on it, as well as the App.

[@mattdull8281]

This is the first time hearing of the brand. Growing up, my brother and I just had the basic sets of track and cars. I do recall after several minutes of track time, the smell of electricity would grower louder and louder from the cars. Fun times, though.

[@richardbull-domican1831]

A favourite was the Racing Mini from the '70s. The noise of the cars on the track, the smell of the hot controllers, the difficulty of keeping the cars on the track. Ah yes. It's all coming back!

[@FoxtrotStudi0s]

1980: We'll have flying cars in the future! 2019: *Scalextric cars- Initial D compilation.*

[@5-1-2ricers9]

*even better*

[@rally2727]

Mount Akina set would be very huge

[@Suesserto_000]

I mean flying cars are probably a bad idea cuz there are a lot of people with loose screws.

[@dulok8692]

I don't remember Scalextric sets here in the US when I was growing up, the sets I had were from Tyco and the cars were smaller. The details are much better on these larger size cars.

[@alexcheetah79]

That's H.O. scale.

[@seanbyrne8767]

The Mercedes CLK GTR LM was one of my faves back end would spind out easy. Also the minis was always super fun and quick af around the track.

[@VisuFrame]

I have that one too!

[@neonspartan7407]

Ah yes the minis

[@davemuir7581]

Mine was a Toltoy Tyco Command Control set - the race cars had steering that caused them to run against the raised edge of the track which had 2 lanes with 3 live wires embedded in it. Each car used 2 of the wires for power, (car 1 say left and center and car 2 the right and center). This allowed the car to steer from one side of the track to the other which was needed as there was a 3rd slow obstacle car that use a wire pin in a grove on the sides of the track to hold it to one side of the track or the other. This meant you had to pass it on the straights or on the outsides of corners if it was on the inside of the corner, the race cars would drift to the outside of corners since they were not held to the inside so no passing possible on corners if 3rd car was on the outside of the corner. This meant strategy was needed so you didn't get held up too much following it around corners then have to slow right down or stop to get room to corner/turn to the inside lane after the corner to pass it, also meant both cars used the outside lane around corners so you needed to swap lanes to pass if you were faster. Great fun. Just saw a video of a different version of my set that had a center divider on some corners so race cars could use the inside lane, way cool.

[@roblinnbailey2359]

“Includes paid promotion” I think that’s pretty much a given on this channel at this point.

[@alexandermallinckrodt2847]

Well tbf it does have to be profitable

[@CodyUnderstorms]

@Peet Kotze great content? You mean glorified commercials

[@CodyUnderstorms]

@Peet Kotze I think its less about making a living and more about the millions Drivetribe lost.

[@rvnx]

Would you rather have 10:02 videos with shitty filler so they can run ads?

[@An.Individual]

@@CodyUnderstorms you could be right. I just looked into this and Drivetribe has lost $16 million in last 2 years OMG

[@keithallen4389]

The Jaguar you mention is special but my love goes back to the first Mini I had in British racing green, among many others since my first set in 1962.

[@RedLP5000S]

I never knew what Scalextric was until James May made that episode where he made the world's longest track that went through an entire town. Here in the States, I grew up with the smaller scale slot cars from Tyco. The cool thing about those was that they sort of stuck to the track magnetically. Or electromagnetically. I had a track that went up the wall called, "Cliffhangers." Tons of fun.

[@OneSwitch]

Started with a basic figure of 8 track with two very hectic Mini clubmans. Then bought a ton of second hand track from a vicar, learnt how to fix up the bits his son had destroyed, neglected, and build a wonderful track. Loved a Ford Escort in black and gold with working headlights. Must have drive my parents spare, asking them to frequently sit in the dark, so I could get full effect. Always wanted an SD1 Police Car but couldn't afford it.

[@edteach3r]

I simply adore Scalextric. I still own many of my collection from the 1960s (very abused by my friends and I) and have added a multitude since then. My collection is now close to 60 cars. My favourites are the Legends remakes of 60s and 70s F1 cars and I will definitely be adding the six wheelers ... I idolized Lotus and Tyrrell.as a kid, and Jim Clarke and Jackie Stewart still adorn the walls of my basement race den. Thanks for a great video.

[@brobsonmontey]

This video took some real skill and creativity. Making something as simple as Scalextric seem like the engineering marvels of SpaceX really took some effort. In their next episode, DriveTribe will do a video on the 21st century engineering involved in drying your hands with a towel after washing oil off them using soap and water.

[@Ianzandvoort]

I have a Scalextric Caterham which is my favourite. I had a set when I was a child and was really happy to buy a set again when I got kids myself.

[@sim-vinny]

I always find scalextric cars SO detailed thats a reason why I love scalextric so much

[@FlyBoyGrounded]

My favourite Scalextric car was the Saudia Leyland Williams FW07. I never knew there was a Lotus 79 available. This would have been my favourite otherwise. The really cool thing about the FW07 was that it performed better than the Minis or the Ferrari 312 just like it would have done in real life so, even in miniature, the engineering and the physics that made this a faster car in real life filtered down to the model. A really cool thing I discovered, when the slick tyres became so worn with age that they could barely take the corners without massive powerslides and could hardly get off the line without a ridiculous amount of wheel spin was that an application of pritt (the non-sticky sticky stuff) directly to the tyres made them grip like a hot set of sticky Dunlop karting tyres from 1982.

[@jonstokes7588]

Grew up with AFX & Tyco slot cars at home but also lived close to several commercial tracks. Owned maybe 2 dozen Parma Womps over the years. Still take the fam (including my 5 year old grandson) racing at my favorite track in NJ whenever possible. As for Scalextic cars, first in my heart will always be the Gulf liveried GT-40s. Though the over scale 'Super Karts' roll a lot quieter and are a joy to run with the young ones at home.

[@SirDaffyD]

I got my first set in my late teens, had to buy it myself. I built on that set to have around 60m of track, and over 20 cars of all types. I used to re-wined the motors, which gave you different torque caracteristics. Some excelerated very quickly but had ordinary top speeds, while others excelerated slower, but had awesome top speed, with wheel spin often happening when taking of from start due to the big torque. Had fun all the same. Sadly, sold it all for cheap when I had a garage sale. Wish I hadn't done so these days, as there where some value in what I had. This was around 30 yrs ago.

[@geigerzoola6642]

Wheres the little sister package?

[@craigsalmon2914]

Found some of my old sets in the loft a few weeks ago in there boxes. Not anymore though a couple of hours of building a large table in the loft and setting the tracks up me and my two daughters 16 and 14 have spent many evenings playing on it. My favourite car has to be my general lee. A great racer and good looking model

[@marcio_de_oliveira]

Sorry but Scalextric is ok for home and as a toy, I’ve owned in the past a small shop of car slots and the best track is for sure Carrera, way more smooth track so you can slide ways very nice and also the distance between cars is quite bigger that allows you to run trucks by side without problem. I had around 16mt of track with 6 lanes and was a piece of fun, very good old times! 😁

[@FarmYardGaming]

Follows a post on the App about how to make them go faster. Nice work lads

[@MrBigad77]

My old man used to work for Hornby hobbies in Kent back in the 80’s, we had the old tr7’s, lotus f1 cars and one of those 6 wheeled f1 cars. Loved it all

[@Trillock-hy1cf]

When in the RAF and stationed at RAF Akrotiri (1965-67), Scalextric became the rage, and used the normal small plastic kits in the figure 8 configuration in 1966, as there was a local shop in the town of Limassol, where we could by the kit cars that were clear plastic, so that we could paint the insides any colour we fancied, and fit bigger motors, and good quality tyres etc. We didn't want to spend a fortune on possible unreliable plastic clip together tracks, so managed to get permission to use a disused parachute packing building, over the road where we lived on the base, and proceeded to scrounge materials like sheets of hardboard or some flexible plywood, rolls of copper strips, glue, some heavy duty batteries from the MT section etc., and also some power tools like jig saws, circular saws, screwdrivers and other tools, so the build cost was zero. So I think there was about 6 of us who were permanently (plus some fellow helpers with spare time) going over there to start the sturdy frame work, lay the track on the top, jig saw out the slots, glue down the copper slots, cut some square holes into the track for the marshals to rescue cars that come off the track etc. Then there was a stand build for the 'drivers' so that they had a clear over view of the track, and once tested for electrical continuity of the copper slots, a work bench for the 'drivers' to run in their tyres, run the gears in, maintenance of their slot cars etc., as it all got to be some serious stuff to compete against others, and trying to find the best quality hand controller that didn't get too hot, plus deliver a good supply of DC to the track, and good enough to survive hours of use. No one really minded if others put in a bigger motor that would fit in the body work properly, and encouraged the others to try and make their cars run as fast as they could, and handle well too. Once done, and further testing done, we then spread the word at the base, which also spread to other bases in Cyprus, so that teams could come along, bring their families if they wished, for a great evening of racing other teams, and word of mouth spread for more an more people wanting to race their cars against others. My favourite car was the Ford GT40....:) Sorry, a bit of a long story, but scalextric cars hold a lot of memories of those days. The 'club' was still running when I had finished my 'tour' out there in 1967, and what happened after that I don't know, but it was great fun building a sturdy track, scrounging all the gear, and helped a lot of people enjoy themselves........racing plastic kit cars....:) No doubt modern ones are much better cars today though.

[@Infernoblade1010]

Loved Carrera for years when I raced when I was in school. I treasured my sick Enzo Ferrari. I did love running on scalextric track in our nonmag series with an awesome McLaren!

[@joeyguitar2056]

I never had an authentic set but had a few different imitation slot car sets and loved them to bits.

[@philcarpenter809]

As a child in the USA the slot cars for me were Aurora Model Motoring and AFx. Now I'm all in on Scalextric and it is the mix! Currently my favorite Cars are the GT40 and Ferrari from the 1967 era 24hr of LeMan. Also the newer Ford GTE. Keep rocking the Scalextric stuff on your channel. And those Tyrells I'll have those when they ship.

[@frankmoehlenkamp1264]

Very good movie. I had as a child in the 1970s no Scalextric set. Because I am from Germany and we don't know Scalextric here. But I had become the virus of Slotracing with Carrera in this time. And now, as a grown up, I have a Scalextric arc one set with cars from many manufacturer and many Scalextric cars I love.

[@Noise-Bomb]

My favorite always was my clk dtm in the Dtm Pace Car livery. It had working lights all around and it was awesome to ride in the dark. It was from ninco though.

[@martingothberg3593]

I do love Scalextric and we do have a lot of track peaces at home. Once a year or so we clean out the garage and build a quite large four lane track and just invite friend and neighbours to race. My favourite slot car is a Porsche 911 GT1, a quite old one before they started using magnets for better traction but it does have working headlights. One Christmas I got the James Bond track set (with the DB5 and DBS) from my parents which was really awesome

[@chaniapellet]

Wow, hadn't seen a setup like that since the mid 80's. I'm getting old... May at 4:35

[@S73PJY1971]

i really wanted a TCR set back in the day. my dad got my a matchbox race and chase instead. at the time i was gutted but it was a much better set than what i wanted. got many many hours of fun out of it

[@TriangleV]

My fondest scalextrics model was one of my only ones: Fernando Alnso’s championship winning Renault F1. Loved the details and aero, really miss racing these guys.

[@argonaut6386]

Had a polistil slot car set as a kid in the 70's. Had a JPS lotus and the blue 6 wheel Tyrel Elf All my friends had scalextric but I preferred mine. I still have the remains of both cars lol

[@vijaypraveen015]

I had these as a kid. Hopefully who ever got this after I donated them had as much fun as I did.

[@rainerzufall7620]

We have a 40m Carrera Exclusive (now 124) track at home. Love it as a winter evening hobby

[@blowenfuse]

I had racing trucks, my dad got me a humpback bridge and some other rally inspired sections of track, super fun.

[@RichardMartin]

The brown and black Mk1 Ford Escort was my favourite. The stock cars and Mini bangers that could do a full 360 spin were rather good too. I also had the Rover police car with working siren and flashing lights, it was great to look at but so heavy it couldn’t catch anything. 😆

[@gflo2781]

I think I figured this out pretty much the same time I was playing with them as a kid. Thanks mainly to my dad getting 2nd hand tracks and cars quite alot, and they needed some fixing up!

[@firefightszz]

I had an off brand 1966 lemans set with the number two ford gt40 and I loved it

[@asicdathens]

In the early 80's I used to play for hours in my figure 8 loop until the old type spring type controllers smelled from the heat

[@mattm6720]

Yes, the smell was unique to Scalextric. I remember it when playing.

[@ojkolsrud1]

I just had an idea to put an FPV camera and transmitter on top of a Scalextric car, and race it around! The video is being transmitted live, with very little latency, to a screen, or better yet, video goggles. I think that would be really thrilling, because you'd essentially see the track from the perspective of the car.

[@leonardo040799]

I had my first when I was 13... Still love today... It s one of the fwe toys that will live forever like Lego toys. Cars are a simbol, and combine that with a child, absolute joy!

[@RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

i couldn't possibly give a single favourite car - love them all, but here are a few semi-favourites, if you will: BMW Z4 GT3 Goodsmile livery, Schumacher's Ferrari F2004, Ferrari 330 P4 (#21), McLaren P1 in volcano orange and one of the cars from my first set; Lamborghini gallardo with Need for Speed livery.

[@sharpvidtube]

I remember dropping lots of hints about wanting a scalextric for Christmas. I got a train set. I would of probably wrecked it in a week but it would of been fun.

[@LR_84]

Who remembers the wires, didn't know they had fancy Bluetooth stuff today

[@olympus__]

Luuk Roper I still use the Audi TT oval set. Proper analogue setup

[@kevin1234gg]

I've always wanted one. They're so cool!

[@Necarianus]

My parents bought me a kit when I was a kid. Turned out later they used to sneak down to the basement where it was kept after I had gone to bed and played with it themselves. Only reason they bought it for me I think.

[@jackhaase4046]

I had the Carrera Ferrari set with the P4 and we also purchased a gt40 for it as well. Best set of toys in the world!

[@JustinnRC]

When I was a kid I played with these and got bored after a few minutes but now I feel like buying another set to play with them again

[@Trusteft]

I don't remember details, but I did have a simple track back when I was a kid in the 80s. I liked it a lot. The biggest problem with it was the same if I were to own one today. Not enough space to have anything than the smallest track. A small track is just not as fun in the long run, not just because of the size, but also because of the limited amount of designs you can have. When video games reached a point where they looked and felt good enough (late 80s in my case) I more or less gave up on scalextric. I guess it was similar to train models. I would love nothing more than having huge tracks and model trains on them, but in a small room....then came Railroad Tycoon. If I were rich or at least had a large enough apartment/house, I would 100% get scalextric and trains.

[@AndrewKerr5]

I had the old figure 8 track that I found out I could modify to a oval. It was the one with the Alan Jones Williams FW08 and another F1 car. I tried to get more cars, but living in a small house with a little to no income meant I never got a 3rd car or any more track add on modules that I cold get in a local model shop.

[@gidmonkey982]

My favorite slot cars that I own are Porsche 962 C - #8 Blaupunkt. Le Mans 24h 1988, Hornby MG Lola slot car, Scalextric Pirelli Dallara Indy Car C2518, Indy Car Dallara GULF Scalextric C2517. All great cars, sadly I took them apart and broke the internals trying to find out how they work.

[@TDL5584]

As a kid i had the pro rally set with the focus rs wrc and the impreza wrc

[@AussieGunzel]

Starting to get back into slot cars after this. Will definitely pick up a Scalextric starter set (probably Bathurst legends)

[@JosephTorre-xg6oo]

Hello I just bought Scalextric Aston Martin DB5, my question is! I am not a racer, only collection of different DB 5 model car's. If foin to use a 9 volts for a demo is it possible or any advise what to use for a demo, like turn on the wheels and lights. That's all. Thanks

[@cliftonmanley3882]

My favourite Slot Car? The one that wins... past that, I have a soft spot for Fly Trucks in 32nd scale, got me my first Club win, and that win is still a club record, 18laps in front at the end..... lol, those trucks are hard to get to go fast, I worked it out before anyone else in the club...

[@Bsc8]

I do not had this brand of electric scaled cars but i have the '70-80s Polistil complete set, but Polistil has ended production in late 90s so now it's discontinued... I have all the original cars 70's F1s , 80's rally cars, trucks, old le mans cars ecc... My dad has this passion when i was a kid and i had so much fun!! All the passion btw ended when ps1 came out and i started playing GranTurismo... And now basically every racing game i'm sorry 😂

[@nismo3871]

this is the first time ive heard of this type car but cool! since i love toy cars too!

[@therealknapster]

I was a ' Power Track ' kid and only got scale when I was much older , dad was a ' Motorway ' man

[@hamzamohammad3287]

I have a Scalextric Quick Build set with the Police and Suspect vehicles but I've been having an issue where both cars would stop on the track but I would have to push them inorder for them to work does anyone know how I can fix this??? Thanks

[@Ledshot]

my favourite Scalextric cars was my Subaru WRX STI in full rally set up with the iconic livery

[@enti9119]

Ford escort rs models rally and touring, if you adjust the position of the motors cog you can make it got faster! Or fit smaller and larger cogs or buy beafy motors, we would take the motors out of those little hand held fans as kids and replace it with the cars motor it had alot more power!!!

[@YoshinyYo]

Is it still a thing?

[@vanguardsr368]

My favorate scalextric car is the Aston Martin dbr9. Still have it out on display!

[@vitaobatera]

I have the chrome Veyron & SLR kit!! It's awesome!!

[@cryo2156]

I had a Cars themed figure-8 set as a kid with Lightning McQueen and Doc.

[@mono_vt]

I had a Williams Renault Laguna BTCC (Had light up headlights which was cool to younger me) because I was crazy about TOCA Touring Cars on the PS1, even though I was never any good at it. Turn the lights off for some night racing.

[@dillkommen]

I think I'd have to agree with the Jaguar XJR 9 for a favorite slot car. Slot.it produces a beautiful model with the Silk Cut Livery.

[@haroldellis9721]

My favorite is my Lotus Evora, which not only looks great, but beats my kids' cars time and time again.

[@neonspartan7407]

My favourite part about the power station Christmas parties I went to as a kid was the Scalextrics they had set up with multiple different types of cars my favourite being the v8 supercars

[@AussieVeteran71]

Has to be the Scalextric Bathurst version , maybe because I'm an Aussie as I didn't like the pommy or yank track styles that were forced onto us down under . If I was going to make a track it would be the Phillip Island GP circuit.

[@Metal-Possum]

Scalextric was for rich kids in the 90's. I had matchbox sized AFX instead. I still have it, as well as some additional extras I picked up in more recent years. It's still fun, but the emphasis on performance and magnetic down force has sucked the enjoyment out of it, so I keep my eyes open for old cars instead.

[@rickmartin403]

I love the GT40 that came with my Top Gear power lap set.

[@Quazi83]

I used to have the red and black sierra cosworths. Good times

[@geoffg46]

Yep, most of us worked this out when we were 10, if you didnt it wouldn't work . It was a good mechanical educational toy really, you soon learned not to put coins or your tongue on the track ! Disappointed not to see the original steering cars tho

[@markushackl2346]

Had three carrera sets when i was younger. (the german Scalextric) Two f1 sets with the old 2004 cars and one set with three different porsches

[@Tummons5150]

Guess you didn't have friends then spoilt bitch 😂😂😂

[@melvy211]

I had the Escort Cosworth rally set! Played it so much the wheels fell off the cars in the end!

[@hoagy_ytfc]

The description at 3:30 is, to be frank, a bit bollocks. You're showing an Arc PRO, which isn't sending an analogue signal to the track

[@henrybenrycat1]

Back in the 60s we soon burned out our Scalextric cars and controllers and so built our own. Bold and Burrows model shop in St Albans, Herts, UK had a pay as you go track and that was THE place for us kinds on the way home from school. Wish I still had my Chaparral 2C in lime green with a RiKo motor and an MRRC controller - ah, those were the days... We went onto make our own chassis from brass wire and tubes during metalwork lessons at school and cover them in clear plastic bodies painted on the inside to keep them from being scratched. You see - we baby boomers did get to learn something good at our low expectation secondary modern schools...

[@250GTOAJ]

I have never owned one but today i would go for the Castrol XJR-9.

[@HMCarReviews]

I had the Meganne BTCC from the late 90s.

[@bazzyg]

I had the Le Mans 24hr set and the damn things kept coming off the tracks. was always in search of making the longest straight in my living room.

[@gaasgreatamericanautoscene9075]

Don't have a favorite car yet, I just want them all !

[@cohenday1377]

Bro The Tyrrell driver Jody Sheckter is South African not British!

[@rileyw9969]

For me, my favourite Scalextric was and still is the Audi Quattro!

[@vanguardsr368]

I HAD THE MIGHTY METRO WHEN I WAS A KID!!!!!!! WOW ITS SOO COOL TO SEE IT AGAIN!

[@murry001]

"OUT POOOOOOOT"

[@thenewberrym.c.914]

I know right. What is outpoot.

[@ImTheJoker4u]

I had a set made by Tyco as a kid. A look on eBay says it’s worth a few bucks now.

[@ClarinoI]

I had the F1 set, with Williams and McLaren cars in the old cigarette sponsorship livery.

[@carlx9880]

Oh... my first and the only set was the Carrera Digital 132 GT Master set. I got it when I was in Junior high, and I just couldn’t stop playin’ it... I played it so much, that my thumb got numb afterwards, just so I can improve my lap time back then lol... (Honestly, after watched this video, I still think Carrera is better made, more exquisite and goes faster...)

[@englishrobex]

I've had a go on that Silverstone re-creation at Margate and it and the controllers are horrible. That's why you found it hard.

[@hullinstruments]

0:06 None of them because I’m American and haven’t heard of them until now 😕

[@appinventortotaskerandback4284]

Looks like the feuture for electric cars. How about a recharge lane down the motorway.

[@dddaanubels4528]

I still own and love my homemade bmw 320i group 5 racer in 1/24th scale.

[@Turbo.RF4]

Imagine when scalectrix had the license to initial d and created it with actual mountains and downhill parts!!!! And everyone of us bought it and using the AE86 always😆