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Originally Posted by the french guy
I had some chats with really good slot racers (international champions during the 60's-70's-80's, from France, USA, germany), and they ALL said that the hobby has been killed in the 80's because of the "race for better weapons" stuff.
During that era, slot racing was not playing with scalextric or aurora stuff anymore, people built big wood race tracks, they didn't use stock plastic car anymore, but metal high spec chassis, rewired motors, "tweaked" cars, special controlers and stuff like that...ANd the hobby almost died with the Veterans of it, because nobody was able to afford the cars, the tracks, and noboby was able to tweak the car the "professional way" these veterans did.
Hopefully, because of the new model running cars appearing in the 90's (plastic), easily available and affordable for almost everyone, the slot racing hobby breathed again. Back to roots sort of thing.
I believe the analogy with MF is really obvious.
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Amen to this!!
This may sound hypocritical coming from a custom board builder, but I think that in order to keep our hobby going, we need a game set/assemble your own kit type thing that costs under $100 and plays well enough to hold someone's interest. We also need to allow newbies (myself included) a means to compete without feeling like they need to spend an inordinate amount of money or time to play.
I also like Dimitri's idea regarding the marketing of our "leagues"; calling them clubs. League's are intimidating, but clubs or social associations aren't. After you get together a few times and scrimmage or play a tournament, you'll be bitten by the bug!!
DR