Slot Car Tracks

Some kids like those Hotwheel tracks that you put a car on top of and watch it go through the course. I'm not one of those kind of kids. I run on electronics and things that you control yourself. No wonder I don't like television a lot. Television is like watching your Hotwheels car run through the course and crash because you weren't there to stop it. That's why I play with Slot car tracks instead.... even though you only control the speed of the car. But it's better than nothing.

Slot car tracks are plastic tracks that you put a certain car on and control it's speed through the track. The bottom car in the picture is the top view of the slot car. It has an electric motor on it, spinning the back wheels, pushing the car forward. The one above that one is the bottom view of it. The two metal bronze-colored things touch metal lines across the track that carry electric currents. The small thing sticking out in between the metal things fits into the slot in between the two metal lines so that the car stays on course. The two things above that are just tops that you can put on top of the cars so that they look like real cars. The gun shaped thing above those is something that controls the speed of the car. The more you pull the trigger, the faster the car goes.

The tracks all link together in a way that the metal lines all touch each other. This is how the electric current moves around the track. The electricity comes from a certain straight track that two controllers plug into. A power box that plugs into an outlet also plugs into that track.
At first, I thought you could speed the car through the course as fast as possible. I was wrong. I figured out that if you make a turn going really fast, the car will fly off the track across the room. That's why the car is hard to control. You have to go as fast as possible on the straight track but slow down at the exact right speed when you get to a turn. I've also learned that if you go 50 or so laps around the track, when you touch your car, it'll burn you.

There are different kinds of track pieces too. There's a lap counter... Whenever the car passes through, it goes up one lap. Upside down pieces, ramps, and about a million different turn angles. The sponge I have in the box with all my tracks is for cleaning the rust and stuff off the track. If you go without doing that, eventually, the cars won't go. That's about everything I can explain about the car tracks. Bye bye.