BOURNEMOUTH SLOT CAR CLUB

The 2010 season now starts on Thursday Jan 14th

The Thursday Jan 7th Club Night has been cancelled due to the road conditions.

2010 Race Calendar - racing every Thursday

1/32 British Open Championship Meeting - February 27/28th 2010 -Race report

Southern 32 Championship Meeting - Sunday July 18th 2010

Come slot racing at the Bournemouth slot car club. The emphasis is on enjoyable racing, and a friendly club atmosphere. There are classes for a a variety of cars to suit all tastes. We frequently run handicap racing, this gives everybody a chance of winning - its usually the up and coming driver who can improve his scores rather than the established expert who wins the nights handicap racing. As well as club racing, we support National and regional racing

Until recently we ran regular racing for Scalextric/ Ninco / Fly cars - but this is not currently active due to lack of competitors. We are keen to get this sort of racing up and running again - if you are interested please contact us

To contact the Bournemouth Slot Car Club - e mail Derek Purkis - info@slotrail.com

Simon Francis 2009 Club Champion, Simon receives his trophy from Derek

Southern 32 Race Reports Including Bournemouth's annual round of the serries

Race Report on our 1/32 open Meeting on 28/29 July 2007 - James Cleave wins all 3

Club Championship 2007

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Derek Purkis cuts the red tape

Derek Purkis opens our new clubroom in 2005
Click here for the story of our new club room

You can run your own car, or for most classes you can borrow a club car. Club controllers are available, or you can use your own.

The club is attached to Slot Racing Supplies, one of the leading slot racing suppliers in the country - so you can buy just about any sort of slot racing equipment.

The BOURNEMOUTH Slot Car was set up by Derek Purkis in late 1993. After considering several tack designs, of 4 and 6 lanes, it was concluded that 6 lanes would limit the layout options too much. So Derek settled on the current 4 lane design by Chris Frost. The track was built in early 1994 by Terry Wood and Chris Frost. The track layout has remain unchanged since then. In we had to leave our original clubroom at the end of September 2005, and the track was moved to our clubroom, and racing restarted on 17 November 2005.

Track Specification
Lap length	107 ft./ 32.6m
Lane centers	4 in / 102mm
Lanes	4 - Yellow, Red, White, Blue
Surface	Mid Grey polyurethane
Pick up	Copper braid
Power supply (full power)	Regulated 14.2 volts, 75 amps
Power supply (low power)	As above with a 1 ohm resistor in the supply to each lane. (lanes can be individually switched)
Controller wiring	To BSCRA regulations
Car polarity	BSCRA 2003 / Scalextric / Ninco/ Fly (positive on the right). (Each lane can be reversed from race control.)
Race Control	Fully computerized SlotMaster system. This includes race timing, individual laps timed to 1/1000 sec. automatic calculation of part laps at the end of each race, production of heat sheets and results.

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Caravan Racing- something different for the final 2007 club night caravans

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