![]() The ROC race procedure has the cars starting out from a start/finish line that spans both the inner and outer lops of the track, one on each loop, effectively placing them half a lap apart. That ought to be somewhere close to what can be laid out in a soccer stadium. We don’t know the length of the course, but at 67 feet our Scalextric Sport model of it scales out to 2144 feet, a little less than half a mile. The 2010 event was held in a stadium in Dusseldorf, Germany. If you’re not familiar with the Race of Champions, it’ an annual event that brings together top-level drivers from major racing series, including Formula One, sports car racing, pro rallying, and even NASCAR to compete two at a time on a course laid out in an enclosed stadium. ![]() This track, however, may actually come pretty close to matching the scale dimensions of its life-sized prototype. Even a small road course like Lime Rock, at 1.5 miles, would be 247.5 feet long in 1/32 scale. One of the inherent drawbacks of slot car layouts is that none of them, or very few, ever reach the scale dimensions of a life-sized track. 2010 Race of Champions track in Scalextric Sport track
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