I first started enjoying slot cars as a young kid.  My uncle had a HO slot track set that he used to set up on my grandma’s kitchen table. Back then I wasn’t allowed to play much.  I think he let me try a few times but at about 6 years old I hadn’t quite learned not to jump the cars off the table.

A couple of years later, by dad surprised me on Christmas morning. He had built a permanent slot track in our garage on a 4×8 foot sheet of plywood.  I loved that slot set and enjoyed the HO scale racing until we broke it down many years later when I moved out.

I discovered larger format 1/24 and 1/32 scale racing years later, when I decided to get rid of all of the HO scale stuff I still had gathering dust in my garage.  I succeeded in getting rid of it (and thanks to eBay it fetched way more than I thought it was worth), but I ended up spending all of the proceeds and a whole bunch more on a new Scalextric track and compatible cars from Carrera and Fly.

Well, it’s been another couple of years and a move or two, and my Scalextrics track has now been gathering dust in a closet for a while.  I’ve always wanted to get into the highest-end of prefab slot car track, so I’m starting this blog to cover the world of Carrera sets.

Carrera is a Spanish word that means “race.”  Carrera slot track is the highest quality available (opinion, of course! no flames from Scalextric fans please), and they have a lot of new products recently released and on the horizon.  In future articles, I’ll examine and review their current offerings and write a bit about Carrera slot car history.

Have fun, and I’ll see you at the track!