Thousands of people flocked to Brooklands Museum in Weybridge on Sunday, August 16, to watch Top Gear presenter James May attempt to build a Scalextric version of the famous 2.75 mile Brooklands Circuit for a world record attempt.
The TV star masterminded the event for his upcoming BBC series James May’s Toy Stories, for which he has also built a Meccano bridge over part of a canal in Merseyside and created a house out of Lego.
The TV programme, which will be broadcast later this year, will show how James and his team overcame a number of obstacles while laying the track, including the River Wey, office buildings and the dual carriageway roads near Tesco.
It cost £150,000 to build, but viewers will have to wait for the show to find out whether the world record was broken.
Once it was completed, two teams raced slot cars against each other - one team made up of local residents and volunteers from the museum and the other consisting of Scalextric Club members.
The world record attempt coincided with the Pendle Slot Racing Festival taking place at the museum, where enthusiasts swapped slot cars and competed in a race on a drag slip under the museum’s Concorde.
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