Editor's Note

by Christopher "Kit" Kidder-Mostrom

I’ve been hinting at big changes coming to DRR over the last few months. And, we’re about to announce some of those changes over the next couple of issues. A few things I’ll announce today.

First, let me say that we’ve been honored to be a part of this community for just under a year. Over the last 10 months, we’ve been here with you every other week, or thereabouts. It has been rewarding work. It has also been exhausting work. Frequent self-enforced deadlines made life a bit hectic a lot of the time. At first, the two issues a month seemed reasonable. That was largely because we were in the midst of a pandemic and a lockdown, and there was time to spare. Now, with many aspects of life returning to normal, spare time is more difficult to find.

You can probably tell where this is going, but I’ll make it clear momentarily. Diecast Racing Report is shifting to being a monthly, rather than twice-monthly, journal starting with the May 18 th issue. Thereafter, the magazine will come out on the third Wednesday of every month.

This change is going to allow us to make some adjustments to our central content, too. As you may have noticed, we try to cover a number of leagues with regularity. They are leagues that represent the overall community, but they are no where close to the sum total of the leagues that are out there. Because we are a small staff, it is impossible for us to cover every league every issue.

Starting May 18, we will no longer have the “Tournaments” section, nor the “On The Track” section of our magazine. We will have indepth feature articles, build journals, special event coverage, racer and host interviews, as well as our columns and resources.

We’re also going to be putting out special editions of the magazine that are just a couple of pages long in between the main issues. Special editions (not sure what we’re calling them yet) will not be on any specific schedule, but will make it possible for us to keep you in the know about big developments.

We’re also going to have other content that is exclusive to our Patrons in between our issues. So, if you’d like to get the best possible coverage of the world of diecast racing, consider becoming a patron for a dollar per month (or more! We’ll always accept more!). Patrons get a downloadable PDF of the magazine every issue. That’s the only way to get a downloadable version.

Well, I hope that you enjoy this issue, and I hope that you are excited for what is coming in the future.

We’ll be putting out our first Special Edition next week as a test run, so keep your eye out for that!

Have a thought about the upcoming changes to DRR? Want to give us some feedback? Send comments to: comments@diecastracingreport.com