When a group of highly respected competitors in the sport that you love, return from a premium, high profile event, with a catalogue of complaints of poor event management, you sit up and take notice. RC Racing is a sport, like many…
I can’t claim today’s spiffing result was due to genius wheel-smithing or Adrian Newey like setup. I hit the weather jackpot in round 1 which flattered my overall performance quite a bit. But having stood out in the pissing rain for 20…
After the last, rather disasterous outing at Tivvy, A bit of a confidence builder was what I wanted out of my club championship visit to the old home track. I was up for being the race director as well as driving, so…
Kept putting the wrong tyres on all day. Really shit performance. I’d rather do it today than at the reigional. Balls. Picture is Taki Inoue, because I was as bad as he was today.
Just 2wd fun today. Practice was greasy, back end fine on line, despite dry setup. Steering non existent in the shaded twisty bits. A bit more roll, silvers and an under servo weight was my first round bet. Heat 1 was good.…
Optima Mid Last time out at Mendip, I pulled the lower steering hub king pin screw out with a glance along the straight barrier. Again. Looks like this casting is a bit Dairylea. Yeah Racing do a CNC aluminium replacement. Nobody had…
Cracking night’s racing! I fitted the Phat Bodies Rear wing to the old Mardave body. And it seems to have worked nicely, the whole car much more stable on the straight. Also got the ride height settings sorted at 3.2mm at the…
Busy, busy day. In the height of summer, RC meetings tend to be a bit less well attended. Either folk are on holiday, or they are going to the bigger events further afield that take advantage of the better weather. So running…
B6.4d The main whip came back from Mendip caked in a nasty coat of black fine dirt and sand 🙁 The box seems free and smooth still, so a full gearbox rebuild wasn’t needed, but the shocks and suspension needed some attention.…
