This weekend is supposed to rain, and it rained on our plans of doing some video with our Traxxas X01 supercar. This could be the only supercar we all can actually afford. What other car you know can crack into 100mph territory...
Wings are often thought of as cosmetic, and in the full-size-car-consumer world, they mostly are—as can be seen by the wing size sported by most punk kids on their tuner cars. But in this hobby, they serve a much more specifi...
AWD, 4WD, all the wheels sending power to the ground it the normal in racing touring cars. So when Tamiya offers a FWD racecar, some people scratch their heads, others scream, and others type “internet” type things ...
If you don’t watch F1 you’re an idiot. Simple really. It’s the most glorious form of motorsports on the planet and this year is simply amazing. Watching the GP today makes me want to race F1 and Tamiya has the...
A few years back a documentary called “Carpet Racers” made the circuit in the RC World. If you haven’t seen it yet, and get The Documentary Channel (Dish and Directv have it) you can set your DVR to record on ...
To many hobbyists, the fuel we use in our nitro powered cars is just the stuff that makes it go. Similar to the gasoline they put in their full scale cars. Never taking time to understand what it is made of and why it does what...
Earthquakes, floods, solar flares, and a Cassini death diving into Saturn. What a time to be alive. To top it off we are adding to the mayhem with an all new edition of VRC Magazine. We’re the #1 selling digital only maga...
Over the past year or so I’ve been racing a decent amount of indoor carpet offroad at my local track and it’s been great! I often analogize it to racing 1/12 scale with jumps because it is a very precise form of off...