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The Digital Scalextric sets available this Christmas include:

• Scalextric Digital Super GT
• Digital McLaren Set
• Digital Driver

I just stumbled across a a video of a rather nice animation of two Scalextric cars doing a lap of a track.
The video is below:

Top Gear’s James May introduces his favourite toys, including Corgi and Matchbox cars and then tries to beat the measured mile landspeed record with a Scalextric car.

A look at the history of Scalextric and its cult status in 1961, with comments from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Adrian Hall. View Clip

I stumbled across this video on YouTube. Its a Scalextric video made by strapping on a wireless camera to a Scalextric car, check it out below…

Zoo magazine recently made the longest Scalextric Track in the world. See the construction of the biggest slot car racetrack ever built!

I love the intro: “Never thought I’d get into the Guiness Book of World Records because I’m pretty lazy…but I’ve been given loads of money…”