Oli’s loop used the same ‘Y’ as mine – that’s the inner lanes of two standard curves, with the outer lane cut off. The pieces you’ll need for Oli’s rather special ‘donut loop’ are eight C8206 standard Radius 2 curves, two C7017 single lane half straights and a C8203 Racing Curve crossover. Simon’s design doesn’t require any track to be cut up, so lets start there… Please take care with any cutting – young people should ask a sensible adult to supervise this, especially to avoid damage to valuable furniture or work surfaces. All can be made using Scalextric track pieces available on the Jadlam website ( You will also need a Stanley knife (or other heavy duty utility knife) to cut the plastic track surface. We used three different DIY rally loop versions during the Winter Rally-Sprint – Simon’s ‘teardrop’ design, Oli’s fabulous cross-over ‘donut’ loop and my basic Radius 2 loop. DIY rally loopsĪlthough Scalextric don’t currently make a rally loop, they are easy to make. You’ll also need a pack of C8222 converters to connect modern Scalextric Sport track to these older ‘classic’ pieces. Expect to pay premium prices (we’re talking three figures!) to pick up any of these old loops in usable condition. A more recent Spanish Scalextric / SCX version (two loops bundled in the ‘Chrono Rally Pack’) is much sought after and Ninco also produced rally loops for their track system. A bona fide PT/73 in good condition is worth a lot of money these days – and you really need two loops to run through a stage more than once.
Each PT/73 set included one ‘Y’ piece to split the track into single lanes, plus three single lane curve pieces. What we think of now as ‘Rally Loops’ first appeared in the 1965 Scalextric catalogue as ‘Hillclimb and Dragster Turns’.
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