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    Scalextric is a brand of slot car racing sets which first appeared in the late 1950s. Scalextric was invented by engineer B. Fred Francis, when he added...
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  • "Top Gear's May in Scalextric Record Bid". Sky News. Retrieved 4 September 2009. "James May attempts world record for Scalextric". The Daily Telegraph...
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  • Scalextric is a 1987 racing video game developed by Leisure Genius, based on the Scalextric slot car racing toys. Scalextric has horizontal split-screen...
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    toward a "model roadways" theme, while Scalextric more successfully focused on Grand Prix racing. As Scalextric became an instant hit, American hobbyists...
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    CarFest (section Scalextric)
    2015 CarFest South, former F1 driver Martin Brundle created a 45-metre Scalextric circuit. During the 2015 event, held at Oulton Park, Cheshire, a Folland...
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    in the modern-day. The toys featured were Airfix, Plasticine, Meccano, Scalextric, Lego and Hornby. In each show, May attempts to take each toy to its limits...
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    Electrotren, the large scale car model kit Pocher, and the scale car racing Scalextric. Hornby was at first a trade name for the railway productions of Meccano...
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    adopted by the original slot car manufacturers, Victory Industries and Scalextric. Fewer 1:32 car model kits are manufactured today, making scratch building...
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    using Scalextric track and cars. This was undertaken with a team of 350 volunteers building the track from an uncounted number of pieces of Scalextric track...
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    in a studio in Bath. Spiritualized had just been there and left a huge Scalextric in the live room. I remember thinking this was the height of indulgence...
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  • JAGUAR RACING UNVEILS THE ALL-NEW JAGUAR I-TYPE 4 ** CASTROL, LEGO & SCALEXTRIC JOIN FORCES WITH PANASONIC JAGUAR RACING". Jaguar Racing. 2 October 2019...
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    at Brogdale, and is next to the M2 at the A251 junction in Ospringe. Scalextric was invented by Fred Francis in 1956, who founded Minimodels in Havant;...
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    cars in both their standard line and in their Retro Entertainment line. Scalextric released the C1336 - Spectre set which included the DB10 and Jaguar C-X75...
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    2009, he appeared on James May's Toy Stories featuring the building of a Scalextric around Brooklands, and also visited James May's Lego house. In 2011, he...
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    doing voice work from home!" (Tweet). Retrieved 3 May 2022 – via Twitter. SCALEXTRIC | Exclusive Interview with David Graham!, 22 December 2023, retrieved...
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    never competed in Formula One, but generated the required publicity and a Scalextric slotcar model was profitable. Mosley spent much of his time negotiating...
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    Faye has narrated Hornby: A Model World following the works of Hornby, Scalextrics, and Airfix on the Yesterday channel. In September 2023, Faye starred...
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  • including Etch-A-Sketch, Airfix model aeroplanes, Lego, Meccano, Top Trumps, Scalextric, model cars, and Hornby model trains. The show included May dropping a...
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    of 4. After featuring as a child actor in some commercials (Cola Cao, Scalextric, Telepizza), he moved to Madrid at age 17−18 with his family, going on...
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    figure-of-eight track: it cost £4/19/11d. Always in the shadow of the Scalextric range, the Airfix version attempted to progress with the higher-end Model...
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  • Artists/Eon Productions 1985 Brian Bloodaxe Edge Software Charles Bystram 1985 Scalextric: The Computer Edition Leisure Genius Andrew Bradley Hornby Hobbies 1985...
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  • It also created 7-inch figures of characters from the previous films. Scalextric released four racing sets to coincide with the film. Activision released...
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    original on 13 May 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2016. "Scalextric Meets Mark Blundell". www.scalextric.com. Retrieved 11 August 2019. "McLaren F1 LM: King...
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    Polish). Retrieved 20 January 2021. Altaya, ed. (2008). "Škoda Fabia WRC". Scalextric, Campeones de Rally. 1: 183. "Škoda Fabia WRC". ewrc-results.com. Retrieved...
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    body, Lego Speed Champions series Volcano Yellow McLaren P1 model kit, Scalextric Volcano Yellow and Volcano Orange P1 slot car, Maisto radio-controlled...
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    Norev Playart Pocher Polistil Powertrack Pyro RAMI Revell Round 2 Safir Scalextric Schuco Siku Solido Tamiya Tekno Testors Tomica Tonka TrueScale VEB Plasticart...
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  • cars and 1:32 digital slot car systems. Formerly Scalextric of Spain. Sold under the brand name Scalextric in Spain and Mexico. Outside those markets, sold...
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    auto show)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Scalextric Rally Champions. Vol. I: The interwar period. Altaya. 2008. pp. 20-24...
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    Norev Playart Pocher Polistil Powertrack Pyro RAMI Revell Round 2 Safir Scalextric Schuco Siku Solido Tamiya Tekno Testors Tomica Tonka TrueScale VEB Plasticart...
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    the thoroughfare featured one of the three overpasses of so-called "scalextric" of Atocha, that infamously became one of the largest hotspots of air...
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