There are two motor shaft sizes used within our hobby; 1/8” and 5mm, with 1/8” being the most common. It really comes down to a strength issue, if your vehicle has massive power and torque and is run in abusive environments...
We fire up X-Dyno to get some hard numbers on the Reedy VR-ST .21 nitro mill. Former factory Yamaha Supercross mechanic Brian Kinney is at the controls hacking out a perfect tune and maximizing output. BK has also designed nitr...
Wow. How things can change over the years. Seems like only yesterday I was sporting my first RC Car. There it sat under the Christmas tree in all of its glory. It was a “slightly used” tub of gold. My RC10 came decked out w...
At Velocity RC Magazine we’ve all been editors for a long time – which means we’ve done a lot of reviews and driven a lot of different vehicles. You can learn a lot about a car in the first hour of testing, but you cannot...
Summer is ending. You’ve got your new school outfit all laid out and ready to strut. Or you’re still at work during the summer, and wishing you were at the beach. Either way, VRC_021 will change your life… or at least jus...
The never ending battle between nitro and electric is like Game of Thrones. You want the naked one with the dragon to win, but you sort of like the little guy too. None of that makes sense, but this issue of VRC Magazine delive...
The great thing about having 3 staff members, is that there is never a tie. But the bad things is, there are simply just 3 different opinions on what we like. While we can eventually agree, we figured this was a good time to ad...
In 1988 many of you weren’t born. If you were, and you were racing RC cars when Tamiya released the Avante you were excited. Back then Yokomo and Schumacher 4WD kits dominated the race tracks, but Tamiya’s crazy new...