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...
Short course is still the top dog when it comes to popular vote. Some of us have been around long enough to remember when “nitro” was basically gas truck. Strangely enough over the past 5 years gas truck disappeared...
Wonderful things happen every day when you play with RC cars. Today, VRC_013 will make whatever day you are having better. How about over 120 pages of RC insanity packed into a tiny little file? Get an instant download and feel...
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...
“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 ...
Those of you who raced a Traxxas Slash when the class started know that the Pro-Line Protrac kit made the Slash able to handle big power, improve rear traction and add rough track stability. Well, it seems that Pro-Line has Tar...
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...
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...