Is it a thing of beauty or a ridiculous relic? Karl Quinn just can’t decide, but he knows that slot-car racing set is just too damn big.

you’ll see the guys controlling the cars… and it looks like the cars are going so fast, they can’t keep track of where their racers are. Watch the blur of slot cars racing by after the jump.

A bloody great slot-car racing set. I should get rid of it ... and in the background a Ford Cortina Mk I (a car the author once owned in real life).Credit: Karl Quinn I bought it – or some ...

then you’re many years behind the state of the art when it comes to competitive slot car racing. In that world the full force of modern electronics has been brought to keeping the car on the ...