Editor's Note

by Christopher "Kit" Kidder-Mostrom, Editor-in-Chief

Over the last year, I’ve entered a lot of diecast races. Not unlike many others, I saw 3DBotMaker’s races, and I set to building a couple of cars right away. Luckily for me, I got mine in relatively early, so we’ve now seen both of mine race. Tartan Titan was in the first KotM tournament, and The Kraken is in the third KotM tournament. Not bad for my first two cars. After sending those off, I sent a couple of cars to Rust Belt Diecast Racing. I also entered fantasy-style races at Chaos Canyon, Rust Belt, and Jackson Pass. That was all within a few weeks.

After gathering up a little confidence, I was still filled with the exuberance of one who had very recently started in the sport. I entered all sorts of races; pretty much every one I could find. I currently have 43 cars out into the wild racing at various tracks. A good number of them have raced in more than one series, as I tweak them and try again with the ones that don’t fare as well as I’d hoped at their first stop.

Over the past couple of months, I’ve shifted my approach. I no longer send my cars to every race I can find. At first I was really driven to do that. But now I am more selective in what I want to build for.

I want to enjoy my builds. I don’t want to feel like I’m under too much pressure to get cars done and in the mail. And most importantly, I don’t like feeling as if I’m missing out on covering something cool because I’ve promised to send two cars out by the day after tomorrow.

Much of the joy of putting out this magazine is getting to share the world of diecast racing with each reader. Sure, I enjoy participating in the races, but I don’t want that to take my time away from being able to find a new track, or a new format of race to share with you.

At first I felt that I needed my name, or the name of Diecast Racing Report to be seen everywhere in order to establish the brand.

Now, I feel it’s less important to be competing myself, than to tell the stories of those who are competing at a high level, or those who are creating opportunities for other racers, or those who are teaching newer racers the tricks of the trade.

You’ll certainly still see Kit Kayem on driver lists, but probably not as often as over the past year. There are quite a few really cool things coming in the next few months that we’ll be talking about here. I can’t wait to tell you about it all!