Scalextric Blog

Mirror.co.uk in association with Santander’s UK shareholders department is offering you the opportunity to meet F1 hero Lewis Hamilton.

You could win the chance to see Lewis quizzed by top sports journalists on his thoughts ahead of the crucial Santander British Grand Prix and have the chance to write up your experiences as an article to appear for Mirror.co.uk. You’ll also get the chance to meet Lewis and challenge him at Scalextric, and as a reminder of your day in London will also receive some official signed merchandise.

For details of how to enter the competition visit mirror.co.uk. Competition closes on June 26, 2008.

Complete the Pit stop challenge in record time and you could WIN one of 10 limited edition Scalextric Silverstone sets.

Topgear are running a competition where 2 lucky winners will recieve tickets to the 2008 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix Test Day at Silverstone, plus the brand new Silverstone Scalextric set which will allow you to race Lewis Hamilton against Kimi Raikkonen.

Five runners-up will each receive a one year subscription to the Scalextric Membership Club, which includes a limited-edition F1 McLaren car.

Visit www.topgear.com to enter the competition. Competition closes on the 18/6/2008.

To celebrate the release of Transformers on DVD Men and Motors are giving away a Transformers Micro Scalextric set and a Transformers DVD to one lucky winner.

For a chance to win visit Men and Motors and answer the following question:

Q. Which actor played Agent Simmons in Transformers?

• a) Steve Buscemi
• b) John Turturro
• c) Jeff Bridges

The Transformers Set is available here, at £34.97

Paramount Pictures are giving away a Transformers Scalextric Set.

To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize all you have to do is answer one simple question!

Visit Paramount Pictures to enter. Competition closes on the 24th of August

Online retailer tgrav.com has teamed up with Eurogamer to give away three Scalextric World’s Biggest Race sets.

To be in with a chance of winning answer the question on Eurogamer’s website.

The competition closes on the 25th of May. Good luck!

Win a copy of Scalextric: A Race Through Time, by Roger Gillham, worth £14.99.

Scalextric celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and this 145-page full-colour hardback book has been launched to commemorate it. Through masses of captioned pictures it picks the highlights of world events every year since 1957, which act as a background to the model racers that were launched at the same time. Great Competitions have a copy to give away.

Competition closes on the 1st April 2007

Win a top Scalextric set and great Will Ferrell comedy Talledega Nights on DVD!

To celebrate the uncut DVD release of Talledega Nights on January 15, Maxim are giving away a top Scalextric Digital Ignition set and a copy of the DVD.

Visit www.maximmag.co.uk to enter the competition.

Closing Date: 4 February 2006

Last night Digital Scalextric was featured on channel five’s ‘Gadget Show’ and was recommended as a top toy for Christmas.

To celebrate this the Gadget Show are giving away a Digital Scalextric set along with loads of other top gadgets, including…

• A Scalextric Digital set
• A Nintendo Wii
• A Lego Mindstorms NXT kit
• An iPod Nano
• A Robosapien RS Media
• And an F31 compact digital camera
• A High Definition Samsung Blu-Ray player
• A Panasonic Toughbook Laptop
• A 20 inch Toshiba LCD TV
• A Sony HC-3 High Definition camcorder
• A Year’s Free subscription to Sky’s full High Definition package
• A remote control car, plane and boat
• A Tom Tom Go 910 in-car Sat Nav
• A Philips Portable DVD player
• A La-z-boy gadget Chair
• And more!!

To be in with a chance of winning it, visit the gadget show website for more details.

The competition ends midday Monday the 18th of December.