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Racers stay focused on their 1/24 scale late model stock cars as they zip around a massive track constructed inside Beckley resident Gary Brooks' (seen at far right) garage at 1010 Dry Hill Road Saturday afternoon. The place is called Dirt Slotz, where slot car enthusiasts and beginners can come together to do a little racing with technical, yet inexpensive electric race cars that can be adjusted using weights and different gears, much like in real auto racing. It ain't your grandma's racing either, with the racing surface designed to behave like a slick dirt track and cars that go fast enough to easily lose conrol of and destroy in a crash. Turning some laps in the photo are drivers (from far left) Martha Canterbury, Sydnie Barley, Tom Canterbury, R.J. Smith, Gray Bowyer and Chase Evans. Anyone can get started from scratch in the hobby with $100 for a complete car ready to race, plus a controller for $58. About once a month, Brooks organizes special event races with monetary prizes and parts, and results are pinpoint accurate with the use of computerized timing with transponders on every car.