Motorsport-inspired social experiences built to bring people together
Motorsport-Inspired Tabletop Racing ExperiencesBring the energy of live racing to your event with a fully hosted tabletop slot car experience designed for parties, corporate gatherings, team building, and private celebrations.
Gatsby’s Garage transforms any table, room, or event space into a miniature motorsport venue — complete with detailed circuits, timed laps, friendly competition, and a centerpiece that guests naturally gather around.
It is easy to join, exciting to watch, and built to keep people coming back throughout the event to chase a faster lap.
Our new tabletop format makes immersive slot car racing easier to host, easier to display, and easier for guests to enjoy. The track sits at the center of the room as a polished interactive feature, giving your event a natural gathering point without needing a large open floor layout.
Guests can step up, learn the car in seconds, set a lap time, challenge friends or coworkers, and return throughout the night to improve. Gatsby’s Garage handles the setup, timing, race flow, car resets, and guest experience from start to finish.
Tabletop Racing Events Built to Bring People Together
Gatsby’s Garage Private Events
Starting at $1750
Bring a unique, interactive racing experience to your home, office, venue, or private celebration. Our tabletop circuit becomes a social centerpiece where guests compete for fastest laps, cheer each other on, and keep returning throughout the event to improve their times.
Perfect for birthdays, client events, holiday parties, wedding weekends, private dinners, and automotive-themed gatherings.
Gatsby’s Garage Team Building
Starting at $3000
Turn your office or offsite into a miniature race paddock. Participants compete, collaborate, strategize, and improve through a structured racing format designed to spark teamwork and friendly rivalry.
The tabletop setup keeps the experience approachable and highly visible, making it easy for everyone to participate — whether they are serious car fans or just there for the fun.
Gatsby’s Garage Custom Track Building
Starting at $4000
We design and build bespoke tabletop slot car circuits tailored to your space, brand, event, or story. From iconic motorsport-inspired layouts to custom branded installations, each track is crafted to be both a racing experience and a visual centerpiece.
Ideal for venues, offices, showrooms, brand activations, hospitality spaces, and private collectors.
Autovino Monza Hot Laps
Starting at $1000
Designed specifically for evenings at AutoVino, Monza Hot Laps brings our fully decorated tabletop Monza circuit to your event as a competitive, social add-on.
Guests take short timed sessions, chase the fastest lap, and return throughout the night to climb the leaderboard. It is simple, memorable, and built around friendly competition — with a custom 3D-printed Monza Trophy awarded to the winner.
Built by Motorsport History
Inspired by the World’s Greatest Circuits
Every Gatsby’s Garage track is inspired by the circuits that define motorsport history — from Monza’s high-speed straights to the technical rhythm of Suzuka and the endurance legacy of Le Mans.
Our tabletop format turns these legendary racing venues into something guests can see, touch, and experience together. Each circuit is designed to capture the flow, character, and spirit of real racing while fitting beautifully into an event environment.
These are not just toy tracks. They are scaled racing experiences built to create energy, conversation, and competition.
Examples:
Hot Laps at Autovino
Built around our fully decorated tabletop Monza circuit, this experience is designed as a polished add-on for AutoVino events.
Over a minimum 2-hour activation, guests race one at a time for their fastest lap. Each participant typically receives a short session with time to learn the car, understand the circuit, and then push for their best lap.
The format is easy for guests to join at any point during the evening. Some will race once. Others will come back again and again, trying to beat their own time or knock a friend off the top of the leaderboard.
Ideal for parties of up to 75 guests.
Includes race hosting, timing, car resets, leaderboard management, and a custom 3D-printed Monza Trophy for the winner.
How it Works
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We arrive before the event, set up the tabletop racing environment, test the cars, and prepare the circuit so everything is ready when guests arrive.
Once the event begins, Gatsby’s Garage hosts the racing experience from start to finish. We introduce guests to the cars, explain the format, manage the timing, reset cars, and keep the flow moving throughout the event.
Guests can step up, race, watch, cheer, and return later to try again.
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Most events use a hot-lap format. Guests begin with a short practice period to learn the car and circuit, then move into timed laps.
Official runs are completed one at a time so the competition stays clear, fair, and easy to follow. The goal is simple: set the fastest lap of the event.
Depending on the event, we can also create team-based formats, mini championships, bracket challenges, or custom competition structures.
All race operations are managed by Gatsby’s Garage, including resetting cars and maintaining the flow of the track.
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The experience starts casually: one lap, one try, one quick challenge.
Then guests realize they can go faster.
That simple loop — race, improve, return — is what makes the tabletop track such a strong event centerpiece. It gives people something to do, something to talk about, and something to compete over without requiring any prior racing knowledge.
It is easy to understand, fun to watch, and surprisingly addictive.
Book Your Tabletop Racing Experience
All events begin with a $100 deposit. Final pricing depends on event type, location, duration, guest count, and track format.
Bring Gatsby’s Garage Monza Hot Laps to your AutoVino event. This tabletop racing activation centers around fastest laps, friendly competition, and a fully decorated Monza-inspired circuit.
Guests receive short timed sessions, return throughout the night to improve, and compete for the top spot on the leaderboard.
Starting at $1,000 for a 2-hour activation.
Bring immersive tabletop slot car racing to your home, office, venue, or private event space.
We provide the track, cars, timing, hosting, and race flow so your guests can enjoy a social, competitive experience built around fastest laps and friendly challenges.
Perfect for office parties, client events, birthdays, private dinners, wedding weekends, and automotive-themed celebrations.
Starting at $1,750 for 2 hours.
Turn your office or offsite into a competitive tabletop racing experience designed for teamwork, strategy, and shared excitement.
Guests compete in structured racing formats, set lap times, support teammates, and challenge each other in a format that is easy to understand and highly engaging.
Perfect for corporate events, team building sessions, retreats, and client entertainment.
Starting at $3,000 for 3 hours.
Custom Track Builds
We design and build one-of-a-kind tabletop slot car circuits tailored to your space, brand, venue, or event concept.
From refined tabletop layouts to permanent display installations, each track is built as both a functional racing circuit and a visual centerpiece. We can create motorsport-inspired designs, branded experiences, venue-specific layouts, or custom concepts built around your story.
Each build combines detailed track design, curated cars, visual presentation, and a racing format that draws people in and keeps them engaged.
Starting at $4,000.
Please contact us to discuss your idea, or explore our 2026 track designs to see what is possible.
A slot car story that kept getting bigger
My earliest car memories were not in a driver’s seat. They were on the floor, running slot cars by myself while my first dog, Toby, kept me company. It was quiet, focused time: just plastic track, tiny cars, and the feeling that if I changed one thing, the next lap might be better.
Years later, I found slot cars again and realized it was more than nostalgia. I started chasing cleaner lines, smoother laps, better setups, and the satisfaction of making something small feel like real racing.
After college, it was just me and Gatsby. I adopted this ridiculous, smart, adorable Pomsky and got my first properly working slot car on track. Over time, Gatsby’s Garage became a personal world of custom cars, evolving rules, close races, and late-night testing.
Then Tiara came into our lives, and racing became something shared. For the first time, I had someone across the track who wanted to learn, improve, compete, and eventually beat me. That changed everything.
Gatsby’s Garage Immersive Racing Events is the next step: taking the thing that brought joy, competition, connection, and a very opinionated dog into our home — and sharing it with other people.
If slot cars could do all that in our little world, imagine what they can do for your event.
Ready to Bring Racing to Your Event?