I have dabbled off and on with making a basic Arduino based slot car track timing system. I was dabbling with it again, and have it working pretty well. As luck would have it though, I didn’t currently have a track setup at home! This is a problem that must be resolved! As is true for most people, space is always at a premium. The is one reason I prefer 1/43 scale slot cars. As I looked around the basement, I spotted an open area that a folding table could be setup in unobtrusively, and set about doing what I could for a track:
I wanted something fun to drive on, and not too technical. Given the space, all of the turns are R1, with the exception of a single turn on the outer loop that is R2.
The biggest issue with this layout is that it is a double loop, compounding the lane length difference instead of reducing it.
However, this proved to me that I could come up with something interesting to build in this space, which is all I was after.