Talking Utter Slot

Most of us are daunted by just the thought of doing a 24 hour slot car race, so imagine having to commentate on one, live, broadcast to the world.

Ian & Doug, otherwise known as Magnetic Racing and Think Scalextric Events, added the 24 hour stint to their race reporting repertoire in Italy in June 2025. This week they are flying to LA to be the voice of the Slot.it Nationals from Electric Dreams for the third yer in a row.

They took time out from packing to have a chat about how they came to find themselves as the voice of slot car racing.

Link to Magnetic Racing: https://magneticracing.com/

Link to Electric Dreams & Slot.It Nationals : https://www.electricdreams.com/nationals/

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RevoSlot models are unarguably a good thing, but if they always come in threes is that a problem? Great when it is a new mould, but down the line does anyone want three fantasy liveries, do shops want to risk being stuck with stock?

In a transatlantic, multi-time zone chat (it was past 1.00am in the UK, twilight in the US) Scott is joined by Mr Slot Car News himself, Dave Kennedy, to talk utter slot. Grab yourself a cold one and listen in.

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Nick's back! We learn what he's been up to and what his latest slot car build is and how it faired in its first club race.

Scott has finally restored an overgrown Fly Porsche 911 and he's playing with himself again (Group C this time).

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Back by popular demand... well a few kind folk* at UK Slot Festival asked if I was doing any more - with special guest appearance by Pedro.

There's talk of what caught our eye at the Slotfest, including the marvelously accessible Scalextric stand where Scott was caught on camera fondling Captain Scarlet's SPV, the slot.it BMW M3 prototype which Pedro insists he didn't break and the controversial, at least for the rivet counters, MRSlotcar classics.

Nick's away on his new job: more on that in future episodes. He'll be back soon.

*Sorry, I'm useless at remembering names.

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We get so excited by news of the new Skoda by Scaleauto we give credit to AvantSlot. What can we say, we're old and no one promised accuracy. Sorry Ivan.

In other news, Fly are testing the limits of collecting madness by selling a car with no tyres, Nick is very excited by the possibilities of Scalextric's surprise new wheel hubs and Scott would rather have a slice of Sloter cheese than the new NSR Lola.

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Season Two? A continuation model? Sadly inevitable?.

However you look at it, the return of (possibly) the world's favourite slot car podcast is reason to give thanks to the Gods of Slot.

What have we been doing? Why Is Nick half the man he was? Has Scott managed to resist buying EVERY Renault 5 Turbos Fly release?

There's only one way to find out - listen!

It's good to be back.

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Harry Potter and a new Top 10: what more can you ask of a slot car podcast?

More: well, there's also talk of new tyres for old Carreras and the new slot.it Audi R8 in retro rally livery has ticked all of Scott's boxes.

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Can a 70s Scalextric Ferrari on new tyres really keep up with a Policar F1? Was the mid-90s Ferrari F40 GT a mass hallucination?

Plus, Nick buys his first Policar (no, really) and Scott learns the hard way about racing digital with weather effects activated.

All this plus the latest Top 10 selling slot cars from Pendle Slot Racing.

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