Blue King World Record

The World record for the fastest lap of a slot car track depends on a standard track design. Since the 1960s one of the most common Commercial 8 lane track designs used in top level racing was the American Model Raceways / AMF Blue King - a standard layout with 155 ft (47.24m) lap length. American Model Raceways was sold to AMF who have long since pulled out of the track building market, but there was still demand for the standard Blue King layout. More recently Blue Kings have been built by Hasse Nilsson, Steve Ogilvie, Gary Gerding, Mike Swiss and many other builders. The 155 ft lap length and basic layout has remained unchanged. Blue kings have always had a main straight leading on to a steeply banked bend, but originally the other bends were fairly near flat. On some more recently built tracks, some of the other bends are more banked, so cornering speeds have been increased, and the record lap times have been set on these faster tracks. Here's some photos of modern Blue Kings from Gary Gerding's web site. Inevitable the records are set by the fastest circuit racing slot cars - wing cars.

The records first went under 1.5 seconds in 2005, here's the records since then

Lap time	M.P.H.	Km./Hr	Driver	Race Meeting	Track	Date
1.492	70.83	113.99	Marcio Paschoalin (Brazil)	Campeonato Brasileiro	Top Slot Blue King	12 November 2005
1.481	71.37	114.85	Vlado Okali (Slovakia)	Group 7 Worlds	Rio de Janeiro King	20 May 2006
1.463	72.23	116.23	Benny Justice (USA)	Summer Shoot-Out	"The Track", Gaithersburg, Maryland	19 June 2006
1.433	73.75	118.68	Paul Pedersen (USA)	BP 500	Buena Park Raceway, California	8 October 2006
1.404	75.27	121.14	Paul Pedersen (USA)	Western States USRA	Buena Park Raceway, California	3 March 2007

(The average speed is worked out to 1/100 mph, but where the lap is timed to 1/1000 of a sec the speed isn't really accurate to 1/100 of a mph)