“This wasn't your traditional fundraiser,” said slot-car-enthusiast-turned-fundraiser Bruce Talamon. “This wasn't your traditional, ‘Hey, come drink and sip white wine or do a run or do a bike ride.” ...

We've all raced a slot car, right? You pick out your car and carefully line it up with a thin groove running along the center of a track. With the remote in hand, you watch it zip around and around ...

For David Beattie, the distance between despair and euphoria can be measured in linear feet. That’s why his slot-car track kept growing. This story originally appeared in the November, 2018 issue of ...

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

Building a private race track has long been a fantasy that only the mega-rich can carry out. For those that are just regular-rich, there is Detroit-based builder Slot Mods. Slot Mods will build a ...

It was the mid-1960s, and it was all a bit mad. I bought one Airfix slot-car acing set, which grew into a 110-foot four-lane track made from Airfix pieces screwed onto several sections of chipboard ...

Slot Mods is a Detroit-based company that creates handmade, completely bespoke slot car tracks for some of the world’s most high-end clientele. If you want a Slot Mods track, you typically have to ...

A ’60s revival: Before video games, there was slot car racing. If you were a young race fan in the late '60s, too young to own a car and maybe even too young to attend a race, you might have owned a ...