This offseason is very weird

 Every year, from May until about September, I've given myself an off-season. I break down the track, put the cars away and let the rest of the room take over. This time of year is way too busy outside for doing pretty much any racing at home. And I live alone! I should be able to just set up a track and leave it up. 

Well, it's not that easy, to be honest. I can't leave the track up as it takes up too much floor space, even if at a smaller footprint. I know why. It's because of the way the rest of the room is set up. Everything is on the long walls, so the floor is narrow. I know what I need to do to fix it, but I'm going to wait. 

The reason I'm doing that is because I will likely be moving before the year is up or not long after the New Year. We'll see. So I don't want to get too into rebuilding my living room in order to better setup a track that I'm not going to race on until Winter. 

What's weird about this offseason is that I have bought a lot of cars lately, and many of them have yet to see any significant track time. Not because I don't want to... I very much do, but I just don't have the time right now. 

I've gotten an assortment of cars from NSR, Slot.it, Thunderslot and RevoSlot in the last month or so. I could probably go all the way back to the Bosch 917/10k in May, which covers 9 cars. They all need track time, tuning and breaking in. 

The cars come from all over the place. There are some cars I can expect to perform a particular way, and there are others that I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen. The Ferrari from Slot.it has a new guide flag system. which looks like an improvement. It's also very nicely made. 

I'm very curious how the RevoSlot cars are going to run. The most striking thing about them is the size: they are smaller than any other slot car that I own. They have the same wheelbase as the Alfa Romeo 33/3, but much narrower in the overall width. I'm sure these cars are likely to scale, so let me just say that I think they are going to be little rockets on the race track. The thing about the Revoslot car is that, once it's been tuned, it is a dang fast race car. And to be this small and nimble? Sure, there might be a little top and tail weight, but we're talking about an aluminum chassis here. Get it locked down and you can throw that car around every turn. 

My daughter wants to race this weekend, so I'm going to try and clear some space so we can do that. That'll happen Sunday, so I'll have most of the weekend to clean and clear. I might even get a chance to set up some of the new cars before Sunday. That'd be nice. My daughter is going to want to drive every single car.