Episode 18: First steps into offroad – Short Course Trucks
After we had finished the electric on-road classes our focus changed to off-road. A new challenge for us because we were now entering an discipline where we had zero experience. I am disregarding the few years back in in the early 80-ties when we had a short off-road adventure with the Serpent Cobra and Spirit. There was zero data, zero experience, so where to start? And what chassis class to take on first?
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Episode 17: Electric on-road development 2008-2011
VRC v3.5 was the last release of the v3 based versions, 2006, but that didn’t mean that development had stopped. On the contrary. In fact, early 2006 I took a very important decision to start working on VRC v4, a completely new platform which we worked on till end of 2011 when it was released as VRC PRO. I will start writing about VRC PRO in a later episode as it was the beginning of a completely new adventure.
So, what did we work on? It More info
We are making good progress with the new 1:10 electric Basher and the Crawler trucks class and are ready to invite members to become a beta tester.
The reason we have developed the Basher and the Crawler is that we expect to reach a totally different group of R/C enthousiast that probably never have done any racing, but just having fun bashing their off-road tracks on open terrain, in the back garden, just anywhere. It could well be that once engaged with VRC that they will try other classes, More info
RIETVELD RUNS AWAY WITH THE VICTORY AT LOSTALLO
Round 4 of the 1/8 Nitro Sportscar Series took us to beautiful Lostallo in Switzerland where a large turnout of racers showed up to test their skills at the enormous track nestled in the valley. Qualifying was fast and furious. When the dust settled, it was Jeffrey “The Rocket” Rietveld (NL) who came away the top qualifying position. Rietveld, who is the reigning 2019 VRC PRO 1/8 Nitro Sportscar World Champion, has been on an a More info
Race Report by Simon Williams:
Having gained reporting rights, trying my hand at my first attempt:
I now see that only one report is allowed per Event: I had planned on just doing Sport class, however, I have now added a few notes on Pro and Club.
4 pictures are allowed per report and 3 videos (I’ve not done any videos this time.)
2020 SEASON 1 1:10 ELECTRIC ISTC SPEC ROUND 2 Lausanne CRF race report - A Main Sport Class.
As usual in a popular class like 1:10 TC, lots of close racing More info
PRO klasse
Francis Wathlet (B) was ‘king of the hill’ in deze klasse, met 2 duidelijke overwinningen op zijn Belgische compaan Nicolas Evens (organisator van de Belgium Short Course Cup). Arjan van de Graaf was met 2 tweede plaatsen nog in de race voor de 2de plaats in het eindklassement, maar in Race 3 op de Bash Pit Long Course kwam hij uiteindelijk een half rondje te kort op Nicolas Evens om uiteindelijk als 3de te eindigen.
1. Francis Wathlet BE 160
2. Nicolas Evens BE 158
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PRO klasse
Deze klasse werd overtuigend gewonnen door Julius Kolff met 3 overwinningen uit 3. Na de eerste wedstrijd met slechts 0.5 sec te hebben gewonnen was Race 2 op Carpet-2 opnieuw een strijd tussen Kolff en Wathlet, die weer in het voordeel van Julius, maar nu met 1 sec. voorsprong werd beslist.
De 3de en laatste wedstrijd van de Cup was op het thuiscircuit van Julius, en hier was de marge opgelopen tot 8 sec. Francis Wathlet legde beslag op de 2de plaats in de Cup, Arjan van de More info
| 13.05.2022 |
VIRTUAL RC RACING – THE INSIDE STORY Episode 18 (Site news) |
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| 07.05.2022 |
VIRTUAL RC RACING – THE INSIDE STORY Episode 17 (Site news) |
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| 04.05.2022 |
BASHER/CRAWLER BETA TESTERS NEEDED (Site news) |
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| 01.04.2020 |
Event report for: 2020 SEASON 1 1:8 NITRO SPORTSCARS ROUND 4 (Event publications) |
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| 17.02.2020 |
Event report for: 2020 SEASON 1 1:10 ELECTRIC ISTC SPEC ROUND 2 (Event publications) |
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| 31.12.2013 |
2013 M-AUTO Benelux Cup Short Course Trucks 13.5T stock (Series publications) |
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| 31.12.2013 |
M-AUTO Benelux Cup 2013 1:10 Toerwagens 13.5T (Series publications) |
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