Everybody has competition. The big brand in RTR’s doesn’t seem to worry, but Redcat has been changing their gameplan to include high-quality products and cheaper prices. The new Kaiju setups up their Monster Truck g...
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 ...
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;...
Today was one of our first official photo shoot days for the first issue of the VRC Magazine. I’ve been in this industry for over 13 years, and in the hobby for about 25. Shooting RC cars is one of the hardest things in t...
“We’ll do it live!” We have no script, no ideas, and just babble about RC cars every Monday at 5:30pm. Derek, Jeff, Peter and some special guests get together, drink a beer, and discuss over 30 years of being ...
There was a time, before the internet, when magazines were king! I used to drool for hours over the pics splattered throughout those printed pages dreaming that I could one day attend a magazine worthy event to hang with the ...
Short Course trucks are king of the hobby right now, with their popularity continuing to grow unabated. The large tarp-style body of an SC has a well-known problem of parachuting over larger jumps, with many people Swiss-cheesi...
For years Derek has been a pain in the RC industry’s side. He was always producing amazing pictures, offering his “opinion,” basing things on facts that those scientists like to use…all of that BS has ca...