HISTORICAL NOTE - The Slot Racing World Cup for Nations was organised for the last time in 2000. Moral winner that year was Spain, but due to a soccer contest, prior to all racing, and won by Belgium, the Belgians could win the World Cup. Now we are going to Spain we wish to organise the World Cup - organised for the first time in 1986 and won by the USA (Profondville) - again. We hope that such event may stay up from now yearly on the international calendar.

Main goal of all world cups was to introduce the "team spirit" in interna-tional racing. Indeed: slot-racing became such an individualistic happe-ning that solidarity became lost in international competition. In world cup racing individual performances don't count. What counts are the results of the national teams the racers are belonging to. This year the World Cup goes over 10 races of 6 x 5' contested with 2006 FIA GT cars at scale 1/24th. Racing with that cars was necessary in order to find the needed sponsor money for the event.

(1) There are always THREE RACERS per car. At each round each of the three racers does two of the six stints.
(2) At each of the 10 FIA GT rounds the cars - GT1 cars as well as GT2 cars - are to stop in the pits to do a tyre change. The team's technician doing the change has to pick up the tyres at the race director's stand and to bring back the changed tyres IMMEDIATELY after the change.
(3) No legal tyre change can be done during the two first segments of a race.
(4) Cars having won a round in GT1 and GT2 have to start the following round with 10 grams of BALLAST glued under the front bonnet and this at the highest point. BALLAST can only be removed if the car finishes in the following round(s) NOT in the top-3.
(5) Between 2 rounds all cars go into the ENCLOSED ZONE where only the race direction is allowed to touch them.  Should a repair be neces-sary it can only be done at the race director's stand, not in the normal pits, and this only after APPROVAL by the race director.