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Solder Me Up – LRP Soldering Station

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...

Hobbico / Great Planes Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy- Do you care?

There are two main distributors in the USA that keep your hobby shop stocked, and generally control the industry as most of the products sold in the US go through either one. Over the years they’ve changed a bit. They went fr...

VRC Magazine – How To Special Issue – 388 Pages! Just $14.95

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...

Trinity Kill Shot 17.5 – Did they buy new calipers?

Is the lawsuit against ROAR over with? Is Trinity finally admitting that their last 17.5 had wire that was larger than ROAR allowed? Who knows what’s going on at the Trinity offices, but they’ve released a new 17.5 spec bru...

1:8th Onroad European Championships

Current World Champion Robert Pietsch has been crowned EFRA’s 1:8th onroad European Champion. It was a close race to the finish with the Michael Jordan of the class, Lamberto Collari who finished a close 2nd. Scan ahead to ar...

Tamiya 419 Quick Touring Video Review

VRC_018 will feature our full review of the Tamiya 419. Touring cars are amazing, freakish machines capable of blistering speeds and face distorting G-force. We tested one of the world’s best and the results were actually...

Atomik RC Whips it Out

I love when companies begin to think more and more outside the box. Atomik RC has done just that and released the Brian Deegan Metal Mulisha MM 450 R/C Dirtbike. Long name I know, but it looks like a ton of fun to drive. The Br...

Got the Itch to Play DIRTY Again!

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...