Model Car Racing

Published by Robert Schleicher

The American magazine Model Car Racing is published by Robert Schleicher, the author of two recent books about slot car racing. The subtitle of MCR describes the contents of the magazine: "Racing replicas of real cars on home slot car tracks". Although you can find an HO-section in the magazine, the greater part of the contents deals with 1/32 scale cars.

Robert Schleicher

Robert Schleicher is a well-known author in the world of slot car racing since the sixties. Schleicher has published four books about model car racing. The first two books (handbook and tabletop) were published in the sixties. The last two books have been published more recently. You can find more information about these books in the "Book Reviews" section.

The Contents

The first issue of the bimonthly Model Car Racing magazine is published in 2002. Every issue contains about sixty pages with many color and black-and-white photographs. The quality of some photos is rather poor. Interesting are the photographs of the real cars for comparison with the replicas.
Almost all pages are editorial, because just a few slot car manufacturers and dealers advertise in this hobby magazine.

Interesting new models are tested

All the interesting new models are tested in the magazine. The tested slot cars are compared with the real models and the history of the original cars are told. In every issue you will find articles about race tuning, vintage racing, home tracks and layouts of real race tracks for your own home. Very interesting is the instruction section "Start Here". In this section you will find hints and clues about your home track.

Distribution

On the web-site of MCR (modelcarracingmag.com) you can find all the information you need to get a subscription. Foreign subscriptions are not accepted since September 2002. Only subscriptions for the United States and Canada will be accepted. Model Car Racing Publications were not able to send new issues to the readers in Europe within a few weeks. To please the readers overseas MCR offers a network of dealers in Europe and Australia.

Conclusion

Model Car Racing is an interesting magazine about "ready-to-run cars you can race at home". Hopefully the publisher improves the print quality of the photographs, but the given information is very useful for all serious racers around the world.

More information

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