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Tested. Tortured. VRC Magazine.

Everybody says that magazines don’t “test” their cars right. They don’t beat them to death, they don’t run them long enough. Pretty pictures never tell the tail of testing in full. So we figured we...

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...

X-DYNO Tested – Reedy VR-ST .21 Nitro Engine

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...

Pro-Line Traxxas Transmission – Mo’ Betta’ Slash

Today we drove out to Pro-Line and spent the afternoon testing their new transmission for the Slash/Stampede. The PL test track is world-class and getting to run bone stock Slashes back to back to feel the performance differenc...

Kyosho Introduces the RB6

Kyosho is getting ready to roll out a new purebred racing macine. The new Ultima RB6 is the latest in the Ultima line of vehicles, which is a further development of the breed, and it includes all the enhancements that have been...

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...

Velocity RC Magazine – Traxxas X0-1

Our magazine is new. How new you ask? Well, we haven’t even come out with our first issue yet, but we’re working on it. One of the most exciting things to come out…well since maybe man was born, is the new Tra...

The Evolution of RC Batteries – FREE Article

If you’re new to this great hobby, most of this article won’t make sense; but if you’ve been a toy car veteran of a decade or two, this read should bring back some fond (or not-so-fond) memories of a time when...