Hello,
I'm researching an effort to do a 1/24 Scale Slot Car LSR event. I'd really like some feedback and guidence from experienced LSR guys.
A sumary of our thoughts on how to proceed so far:
1. Secure the cooperation, guidance and blessing of SCTA or other LSR group.
2. Build a 1/24 scale track at Bonneville or one of the other official LSR event.
3. Insure that our track, cars and equipment have the blessing of organizers and results will be included in official LSR records.
4. Distribute a clear set of rules and classes for slot car entries. We?re planning a large number of classes based on scale appearing body types. It would be great to see nice models of some of the wonderful cars that have run LSR. Also, I see an unlimited single gear and unlimited multi-gear classes. We?d like to accommodate almost anything that might show up, but will permit only wheel driven electric cars. All cars will draw power from the track only.
5. Event promotion will begin long in advance, for maximum participation. We will build a quality website, do extensive mailing and personally contact potential entries like auto manufacturers, universities, slot car manufacturers, real LSR guys, engineering firms, slot car and model builders.
6. We will pitch the project to a film production company as a cable TV (Speed Channel?) special. If a film deal is in hand it will be much easier to pull in some serious sponsorship.
7. The track be temporary, and made of aluminum rectangular tube separated by 1/8? plastic insulators. We have not yet determined final track length or where the traps will be placed, but we are thinking a minimum length of 660 feet, 3 scale miles. If possible, we'd like to do twice that length.
8. Event will be a ?Proxy? event. This means that entrant may attend, but may not touch their cars after delivery to event. There will be NO testing of cars prior to run. This is to allow entrants who ship their cars form all over the world to compete on an even footing. All cars will be unpackaged, photographed and run and repackaged by our crew.
9. 1/24 scale drag cars reach 130 actual MPH in a scale ? mile. We estimate that theoretical top speed on a very long track will be about 440 actual MPH.
Questions I hope someone on this site can halp us with are:
A. How long can our track be?
B. Where must the speed traps be placed? DO we need to time for a flying scale mile, or can the traps be shorter to allow a longer accelleration area?
C. Recommended venue?
D. Who is our best contact to coordinate/include our event with official LSR?
E. What is required of offical timeing equipment. Can we supply our own, or must we use official equipment and timing staff?
F. Must we run in both directions and average results to be official?
G. There is some controversy among us about the "proxy" aspect. There are those who want a pit area and on site car testing. There are also those who want a more public venue, lieka shopping mall parking lot, or an indoor site like a hanger. Any thoughts on this?
H. Has anything like this been done before?
I. What am I missing?
I appreciate your time and anticipate your responses!
