Because fresh shock oil makes better shocks! Over time, contaminates can murky up your shock juice causing inconsistent damping which means poorer shock performance. Some hardcore racers change their oil after every run or two;...
Since LIPOs came to be the battery soldering hasn’t been such a big deal. No longer do you see 111 soldering irons heating up the local track and wasting electricity. But soldering is still a big part of electric racing a...
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve got current World Champion Cody King’s mechanic (and dad) Paul King cranking out some amazing articles to help you as a racer, and bashing. VRC_004 will go into engine tuning with...
Velocity RC Mag fired up the cameras and pointed them at World Champ Mark Pavidis from AKA to see how to glue RC tires the proper way. Check out our YouTube vid and the full article coming in VRC Issue #2 that will be hitting d...
One of the more baffling trends is something that never took off. With 1/8-scale electric, and nitro, topping the “cool and trendy” bits of the hobby and Short Course being hugely popular the obvious mixed-breed of ...
We just got another crazy charger from HiTec and this thing is nuts! The dual charging system X2 Four Hundred has two independent 20-Amp outputs and up to 6s LiPo charging. HiTec provides two balancers, wiring harnesses, and a ...
I’ll freely admit that at this point I love to race, and don’t have the time or desire, to wrench. So when companies offer race RTRs like this TLR 22T, I am all in. We just got this in the office, so I might try rac...
That’s right! We tested the amazing TA05 VDF in the current issue and teamed up with Tamiya to offer a special price on the kit. Normally, this kit sells for $700 from Tamiya, or if you can use good ol’ Google about...