[Aerkuld]

I used to race at a club with a wooden track and copper tape pick-ups. Magnets do absolutely nothing for you, as nota says. You will also find that you will need to do a few small modifications to the cars to make them work well on a wooden track. I think this is due to the harder, less forgiving surface compared to a pliable plastic scalextric type track. If I recall, we used to take off the car body, add a spot of superglue to the axle bushings to hold them in the car to cut down on vibration, sand the tires round and square to the track, then replace the bodies but leave the screws slightly loose so that the body has a small amount of free float on the chassis. A small square of tape on the screw hole helps to prevent the screw falling out and getting stuck in your motor. A routed wooden track is fantastic to race on but the copper tape needs fairly regular attention.

Personally, I've just bought a Carrera track which is hard, rigid plastic with stainless steel pick-ups which is a good compromise. The digital set-ups will allow you to race multiple cars (6 cars on the Carrera digital 132) on just two lanes with lane changing ability on special sections of the track. This really seems as though it will make the multi-lane layouts redundant.