Instead of a squeeze you can make a tight radius turn, this will cause the driver to slow down into it. Since you are also making the design yourself, each lane can have one at a different point of the course.
It's your track, your design, and your money make it fun....
I did a track with a squeeze once and found that I didn't like it much, but that is just me.
Seems to work better for 1/32 where the cars run a little slower and you have time to plan your passes.
Squeezes are all about what the individual prefer.
Not sure about working better in all 1/32, quite a few of the race series for faster 1/32 don't allow squeezes. Maybe it works better with the slower 1/32s.
But for a home track - do what YOU like, doesn't matter if people who will never run on it think its great or think its no fun.
Hi I was thinking of putting a squeeze in mainly because I plan to run sprint cars or gb brisca stock cars and would like some contact between cars as real cars are full contact racing
Hope this helps to explain my reason for a squeeze
Ah Slot stox - that's a completely different sort of racing - yes it needs an oval with squeezes
Contact between the cars is an integral part of that sort of racing, which means the pretty much inevitable contact with squeezes is an advantage. for that sort of racing.
I would love to unfortunately I work nights / evenings and am a new dad so my time is pretty much work and looking after little-un .....I'm not complaining but yes one day I will be there had a look at the website and vids yesterday looks like a real nice bunch of lads u have there is that a 1/32 looking at the half moon sunken tyres they look scaley has anyone done this before ... Full contact ho stock oval / tri oval ?
That is a 1/32nd slotstox with the sunken tyres, yes.
Nobody has done slotstox in HO here, but I would be well up for it if somebody did.
The EAHORC races aren't going anywhere, so when you are ready you can come give it a go. The guys are a brilliant bunch and the races are lots of fun mixed in with hard racing.
Ok no one has done it as yet ...... hmmm interesting so what size should the oval be in ho scale then to be scale ??? Or at least scale to the 1/32 scale size if u know what I mean ?
How about a bullring track? Here's a 1/32 scale example I found on Youtube (not mine though - it's Old Slot Racer's - the guru of routed tracks). Might be a hassle with rails though.
Todd
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Down at the Worthing club one of the guys running it, who posts on here as Woodcote has built a bullring type of track in HO using Toy track repainted. It looks brilliant.
He'd probably be able to give you pointers on sizes etc.
This is the bullring Nico was talking about. It's still not finished, but we've had some good racing on it using the old Life Like M cars, AW X-tractions and T-jets.
Fits on a 6 x 2 sheet using Tyco track - a 6" curve piece on each end makes it interesting.
The lane lengths are 10.64, 11.43, 12.21 & 13.00 feet. A good bit of cork run-off on the turns and the track is angled on the board so there is run-off as you come off the turns onto the straights.
It did teach me a lot about building an HO track and, one day, I will do that routing project. Might start with a 1/43 track though.
I dug out this video to show how the three chassis handle on that size oval
The most we've run at racing speed is the three outer lanes which was superb fun and very close.
I am hooking up driver stations with 'kill' buttons to switch off track power via a relay.
That way drivers can track call when they come off - like a caution. Each driver would have a limited number of calls (say 4 or 5) per heat and then they would be marshalled in real time.
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