Expanding Your New Slot Car Track - Recommended Features to Add First

Recommendations on what you may want to add first to most greatly enhance your slot car track and racing experience for your Carrera Digital 132 slot car set. Although this video leans toward Carrera Digital 132, some of the information may apply to other slot car manufacturers of digital slot car tracks like Scalextric, and may also apply to analog slot car tracks as well.

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Carrera wireless controllers are highly recommended as they add freedom of movement to drive from anywhere around the track, and also eliminate the danger of damaging the track by someone pulling or tripping on a wired controller.

When first expanding your Carrera digital 132 or other slot car track and adding accessories, here are the first three things you may want to add (in no particular order):

Track Expansion Set. Carrera slot car starter sets include about 24-25 feet of track. An expansion set can add 40% to your overall track length which allows longer straights to use more of the speed of the cars, and includes more lane change tracks as well.

Lap Counter/Scoring System: Having an option to automatically count laps and indicate finishing positions is required if you want to have an "official" race or competition. You can add a simple lap counter that plugs into the stock Carrera control unit, supplement that with the Carrera position tower to provide a basic lap counting/scoring option. Alternately, for more comprehensive race management, software such as Carrera's AppConnect or 3rd-party software is available and provides a plethora of options such as setting up race schedules, logging race info, and customizing your scoring system.

Pit Stop: One of the coolest features of digital slot car racing is the pit stop. This feature give you a virtual fuel tank, thus creating the need to pit for fuel adding more realism as you now need to develop a fuel strategy.

Information about the Track-to-PC cable options and HSSRMS race management software shown in this video here:
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For information on Carrera AppConnect race app and Bluetooth adapter for smart phones and tablets:
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