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When Races2U first opened it’s doors on our retail store in the Northfork Shopping Center nearly 3 years ago, the center was virtually lifeless, and our hole-in-the-wall shop in a hidden corner was isolated from the few other tenants all the way at the other end of the center.  Now with new management and ownership,…

This new set available from Scalextric has 2 Bugatti Veyron’s.  It is digital, and includes the 4 car power base.  It can be upgraded to the 6 car power base. It is now available here

This is a really cool video about slot car racing (Carrera in particular), but it is fairly long, and in German.  http://www.n24.de/n24/Mediathek/Dokumentationen/d/5911414/deutschland-im-carrera-fieber.html There is a part at about 38 minutes into the video where a Carrera Porsche races a real Porsche on the Salzburgring in Austria.  They created a scale replica of the track at…

An article from Motorsport.com http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/is-america-s-only-formula-one-track-in-trouble shows that CotA’s claimed  attendance numbers just don’t jive with the facts.  Funny, I think I said this a while back.  I really would like auto racing to succeed here in Austin, and the facility is beautiful.  I hope that they can get things turned around, but I worry that with an…