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NASCAR Slot Car Racing Lets You Race With The Pros

NASCAR slot car racing may be one of the biggest fads to hit the slot car racing world. NASCAR is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Three of the largest NASCAR-sanctioned racing series are the Craftsman Truck Series, the NEXTEL Cup, and the Busch Series. Now these thrills and spills have come to NASCAR slot car racing. Scale models of actual NASCAR racing cars can be raced on miniature replicas of NASCAR tracks. Besides the size, the main difference is that you are in the driver's seat!

Some NASCAR slot car racing fans simply want life like NASCAR slot cars to race on their home tracks. There are toy companies that cater to this crowd. For example, the SCX NASCAR Original Slot Car Race Set contains two NASCAR-themed slot cars and more than 16 feet of track. This NASCAR slot car racing track is not a replica of a specific track. Instead, it incorporates NASCAR features taken from real tracks plus features to make slot car racing more fun. The NASCAR slot car racing track in the SCX set is a tri-oval superspeedway with three banked curves. It also includes two track crossovers which allow the cars to change lanes to the other slot. The latter feature simulates the pushing and bumping of real NASCAR action.

An interesting NASCAR slot car racing accessory is called the Digital Pit Box, also offered by SCX. This piece of track is attached inline with the slot car track. It includes a straight piece of track along with a side road for the pit stops. The Digital Pit Box allows racers to monitor fuel consumption, and it causes cars to slow down when it estimates they are low on fuel. It even invokes a penalty if your NASCAR slot car racing vehicle enters pit row too fast!

Some of the NASCAR tracks are standard ovals between 0.5 and 2.5 miles long. It is relatively easy to recreate these tracks using standard NASCAR slot car racing track parts. That is why the toy manufacturers concentrate on providing realistic NASCAR car models with the fancy speedway track configuration. NASCAR fans love to pretend to drive the Kasey Kahne #9 car, the Jeff Gordon #24 car, or the Jimmie Johnson #49 car. It is the ability to simulate real races and drivers than makes NASCAR slot car racing so appealing to racing fans of all ages. These special NASCAR slot car racing sets and their accessories can be expensive, but cost is no object for a true racing fan.

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