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Nomad Slot Racing is all about Fast Fun!      HOURS
760-492-4619  New Toll free #  866-993-8512

Come to our Raceway "Arrive and drive" rentals or bring your cars and controllers.

OR We'll bring the racing to you with our portable race tracks.  Great for :

     Party Entertainment - Kids Race Car Parties, Fundraisers, Company Celebration, Teambuilding,      Promotions and Tradeshow Traffic Builder.  Nationwide service.
 
We Sell Slot Cars, Accessories and Complete Race Track Sets.  Shop our raceway or webstore.  A great affordable alternative to karts and Radio Control.  We make your Fun $ go further!

Race with us at our public races, or have a private race party at Nomad Raceway!

Custom track design and building. 
Award winning custom cars made to order.

Slot car experts always here to help.

Check out our new Video! 

Our main racing track is "Quadrophenia", we have 6 different tracks:

Nomad Race Shop 2 of our 6 tracks Four lane Quadrophenia Slot Car Track at Nomad Racing

Here is part of our great car and parts selection:

Slot car Parts wall 

Slot it, Sloter, Ninco Monogram Revel and accessories 

Collectible and race tuned slot cars:  Carrera GO! 1:43 cars, track and accessories:

Slot Car Showcase Carrera  Go! Cars, track, sets and acesssories.

Our Slot Car pits, books and controllers:

 Slot car tools and worksbench 

If you are in the area, you've got to try our new track! Inspired by the 1967 Rally de Monte Carlo, it's a single lane that twists from the valley floor to the ski chalet the back. As cars enter the loop at each end, a relay switches polarity to enable driving back down the same lane. Like a real rally it's you against the clock, but it's also a facinating track just to drive for fun! Construction and scenery by Bill Scheidewind, we are adding new features and tuning new cars daily. This is a great addition and change of pace for us. Try it out soon!







Please visit our vista location, or shop our
online store
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Gift certificates are available! 

Nomad Slot Racing is about making "Fast friends" while racing scale model cars. 

Enjoy model car racing with Nomad or on a home track of your own!  

A fusion of hobby and social event enjoyed by all ages, slot racing can be a fun afternoon or a lifetime passion.  Fun for all ages, but 80% of our customers are adults! Slot cars are family fun. We have fathers and sons and husbands and wives racing with us. Cars can be purchased at our shop or online store starting at $13 and complete home raceways start at $59. We run mostly ready-to-run cars you can buy here, but if you bring cars and a desire to race, we'll set up a race for you!

Nomad brings Fast Fun to private events, providing great entertainment as your guests race each other using hand held controllers and model cars running on our portable slot car racing tracks.   Great for birthday parties, bar mitsvah, company or school functions, fund raisers or as a show booth traffic builder.  A great alternative to Go Cart parties.   

We stock a huge inventory of the best slot cars, tracks and accessories in our online store.

Nomad holds weekly public races at a varienty of locations, test and tune nights on our shop we even teach classes on race car prep and tuning. See our Nomad Public Event Calendarfor details.

Nomad supports our customers with slot car tune-up, repair and upgrade services

Nomad professional services include slot car track design and award winning custom slot car building and restoration.   

Our founders and some of our regulars have been building and racing slot cars since the 1960's. We have participated in all forms of slot cars racing and even done a bit of R/C and PC based racing, but we have focused Nomad on the highest fun and satisfaction to be found in model car racing. We like to share this rich hobby with others. 

We learned long ago that we all have more fun when racers help racers, so you'll get first rate service and support from experienced slot racers at Nomad.

 

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New Nomad News!

Nomad is growing! We are doubling our space to set up more track and amenities for you to enjoy! Want to help?  Please come to our Remodel Party February 20 and 21.

Old Nomad News!
November 2008: Our new Super Portable NASCAR track is a hit! 

It travels anywhere easily and is great fun as 6 drivers and once bump ans grind around a 16' x 5' banked oval!  Details and booking is available here, or call today for details and options.  760-492-4619 

November 2nd 2008 was our F1 race.

Check our race report here.


Our August 9th 2008 Lemans Enduro Race was a great success!  See the full race report here.

This is a fun and exiting event not to be missed.  All the details are
here.   

February 10th 2008 ~ Nomad was selected to design, install and operate a custom slot car track for an upcoming Mariah Carey music video "Touch my Body" featuring Jack McBrayer as a "Compu-Nerd" technician who fantasizes about romancing Mariah with, among other things... slot cars!  Here is a photo of the track set up at the shoot on the 18' long dining room table of a Beverly Hills mansion.  Yes, the floor is glass and looks down on the indoor swimming pool on the lower level.

Now you can see the video here.

February 5th 2008 ~ More results added to the Race Results page.

Janyuary 5th 2008 ~ To better serve our racers we have re-established our Nomad Racer's Club.  Check out the Nomad Racer's Club button at the top of this page for details.  New race reports and events coming soon!    

For the fourth year running, Nomad Racing had a booth at the Coronado Classic Speed Festival, on October 6 & 7, 2007.   Staged on the runways and taxiways of NAS North Island with Navy aircraft and ships in the background, the Coronado Classic Speed Festival features over 200 of the world’s top racing machines from years gone by competing on a spectator-friendly 1.6 mile course. These vintage racecars are chosen to compete on the basis of their historical significance and certified authenticity. In addition to the racing action, you can tour the pits, Vendor Village, the Meguiar’s Car Club Corral and the New Car Dealers Association Classic Car Collection.  Check the amazing list of cars registered,that you can see in racing action.  In addition, there were hundreds of great cars on display.  PLUS slot car racing!  The Nomad booth had a great selection of cars and sets for sale, plus our big Quadrophenia track with races all day. We'll be back in 2008!

Race Results page.
August 07:  David Bonds is the proud owner of a wonderful new track in Escondido. See it here.  We'll be racing on it every chance we get!

August 26, 2007: Nomad Slot Racing was at the San Marcos Summer Grand Festival.  See North County Times coverage of a previous appearance there.

August 07: Check our latest race result on the new
Race Results page.

July 07:  Mike Brannian, three time California State USRA Slot Car Champion has joined the Nomad Crew.  In addition to racing at the top levels since the 1960's Mike brings Hobby Industry and manufacturing background to Nomad.  If he tells you to "sit", you might feel oddly compelled as he also trains dogs professionally. 

Now that Mike Brannian is here to help, we're able to commit to every Wednesday and Every Sunday for racng at the Nomad Race Shop.  Check our calendar for details on these and other events.

May 07: Walter Koepsell has been working behind he scenes at Nomad, loading the webstore, handling accounting, working parties and event support.  Now he's our "go to the party guy" and a fulltimer.

April 07: Check out Dave's "new" Russkit Porsche 906 restoration project:

April O7:  Nomad Racer Steve Kern has built a beauty of a track in his shed.  See it here

March 07: We've built a got a big new track called "Quadrophenia" - insanity for 4?  It's a hit at our Nomad Shop races, and at events.  See it here 

February 23, 07  Nomad 0n KUSI news!  See the video here!

February 07: Lara Raven has sent a link to a video of her recent slot car party.  It's a great illustration of how much fun can be had "floor racing"! Lara's Three Track Challenge 

January 07, Rick "Grumpy" Houston is hosting races again on a big new track: Slot Car Racing in Grumpy's garage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check our calendarfor race dates!

August 2006:  Our own webstore with thousands of inventory items is launched!

July 2006: We have completely redesigned our website.  

June 10 - July 4th 2006 We had a booth at the San diego County Fair in DelMar.  We made many new "Fast Friends" so we hope to see more of you at races and more tracks adding to our race series very soon.  

May 2006 - Nomad delivers a portible slot car track for VW of North America's hospitality suite.  the track will be used at the Sundance Film Festival and dozens of other events nation wide. See it here. 

March 2006 - Nomad Slot Racing completes new slot car track for the Marconi Automotive Museum.  See it here. Nomad Slot Racing brough a track and Fast Fun to the Vista Girls andd Boys CLub booth at the Vista Rod Run. Tickets were sold as a fund raiser for this worth cause and racers copmpeted for gift baskets, tickets to events and much more. One racer became the Grand Prize Winner and won a foursome of golf Directed Electronics Celebrity Charity Golf Tournament La Costa; a prize valued at over $1,400!

Jim gave interviews to several reporters and even on: 

 

 

Vista Rod Run

 

 

 

 

 

 

RPM Today ESPN radio 800 San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever it takes to find more Fast Friends!

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Nomad Slot Racing
2590 Pioneer Ave #A
Vista, CA 92081-8427
760-492-4619
jim@NomadSlotRacing.com