Shootouts, or Challenges as we all this one are never easy to do. They require lots of time, effort, money, beer, and work to fairly compare anything to each other. In this case, we picked the 4 top RTR Scalers on the market ...
Trail/Adventure/Scale whatever trucks you want to call them, they are huge. They have been huge. The industry’s racing legends have been mad at this class for 10 years, but now they are everywhere. This issue we celebrate the...
Everybody says that magazines don’t “test” their cars right. They don’t beat them to death, they don’t run them long enough. Pretty pictures never tell the tail of testing in full. So we figured we...
Hobby Fragmentation The other day I was talking to a manufacturer who I hadn’t spoken with in a long time. It was a quick “Hey, what’s up?” call to reintroduce him to what we call “a magazine.” His reply to my askin...
TIRES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR CAR, but even a perfect set of tires will do you no good if they can’t stay firmly planted on the ground. That’s where your shocks come into play; they fulfill many roles, including...
If you’re new to this great hobby, most of this article won’t make sense; but if you’ve been a toy car veteran of a decade or two, this read should bring back some fond (or not-so-fond) memories of a time when...
King of the Mud! Words: Paul King Photos: Paul King Flip Magazine Live Link https://vrcmag.com/free_articles/vrc_014_king_of_mud/#/1/ Prep your car for wet-weather racing If you race a lot, and especially if you travel to races...
Our hobby is 2 parts – one part driving and the other spending ours repairing, upgrading, tuning, cleaning, and sitting in the garage with a beer pretending to do all of those things. We’ve been creating content for the...