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Apologies for posting in the Q & A forum, but seems to get buried in the Race section & the news is GOOD for everyone! Here's the deal :
Yesterday the SoCal Scale Thunderboat Club hosted a scale race at Legg Lake and our ever-so-FE friendly NAMBA D19 Director Ted McKay arranged for inclusion of four rounds of P-Ltd Cat 6-lap oval racing. The day was warm and sunny, the gassers were the same D19 Amigos , CPR's, H20 Gassers and others and the vibes were totally friendly and kicked back. Ted (Geico), Kim (Mystic), Stephen (Geico), Naveed (Mean Machine) and myself(Motley) had a ball on the oval, and the point I'm trying to make here is that these current RTR's can, with a budget-friendly investment, offer some exciting times minus the dollar crunching that other forms of racing can require. Point is that the emerging state of RTR's are really advancing the hobby and the fun/excitement level and that's GOOD NEWS for us all.
Result-wise : Well it's hard to tell the whole story - while you're piloting your boat you don't know what's going on with the rest of the pack, but in general : Ted's Geico was outdriving us all - My Motley was a good half-lap faster than all the other boats but a last minute servo replacement with a too-long servo arm (shameless excuse time
) had the Motley getting way squirelly and oversteering. Stephen and Kim met mid-course and took out Kim's rudder, Ted drove flawlessly always beating me to (and holding) lane one, and I gave the buoys a good thrashing trying to get inside him to run away from him on the straightaways. Stephen got bitten by the loose-collet bug in one heat and found some fliperoo water as well. Naveed just kept plodding on with his underpropped MM but kept finishing. The highlight of the day (one of them, for me at least) was the last heat when Ted and I battled it out for the lead and at least five gas guys on the driver's stand were completely caught up in the action and were wildly gesticulating and shouting encouragement for me to overtake their homeboy Ted, but I rolled it on the last lap exiting turn two muffing what would have been a great drag race to the finish line.
The point I'm trying to make here is that FE, with the arrival of some accessably priced solid product, is alive and well, and we'll all benefit from it whether racing or funning.
Oh, the Class win ? Good old Naveed and his slower but consistantly finishing UL-1 motor powered Mean Machine scored the most points
Yesterday the SoCal Scale Thunderboat Club hosted a scale race at Legg Lake and our ever-so-FE friendly NAMBA D19 Director Ted McKay arranged for inclusion of four rounds of P-Ltd Cat 6-lap oval racing. The day was warm and sunny, the gassers were the same D19 Amigos , CPR's, H20 Gassers and others and the vibes were totally friendly and kicked back. Ted (Geico), Kim (Mystic), Stephen (Geico), Naveed (Mean Machine) and myself(Motley) had a ball on the oval, and the point I'm trying to make here is that these current RTR's can, with a budget-friendly investment, offer some exciting times minus the dollar crunching that other forms of racing can require. Point is that the emerging state of RTR's are really advancing the hobby and the fun/excitement level and that's GOOD NEWS for us all.
Result-wise : Well it's hard to tell the whole story - while you're piloting your boat you don't know what's going on with the rest of the pack, but in general : Ted's Geico was outdriving us all - My Motley was a good half-lap faster than all the other boats but a last minute servo replacement with a too-long servo arm (shameless excuse time
) had the Motley getting way squirelly and oversteering. Stephen and Kim met mid-course and took out Kim's rudder, Ted drove flawlessly always beating me to (and holding) lane one, and I gave the buoys a good thrashing trying to get inside him to run away from him on the straightaways. Stephen got bitten by the loose-collet bug in one heat and found some fliperoo water as well. Naveed just kept plodding on with his underpropped MM but kept finishing. The highlight of the day (one of them, for me at least) was the last heat when Ted and I battled it out for the lead and at least five gas guys on the driver's stand were completely caught up in the action and were wildly gesticulating and shouting encouragement for me to overtake their homeboy Ted, but I rolled it on the last lap exiting turn two muffing what would have been a great drag race to the finish line.The point I'm trying to make here is that FE, with the arrival of some accessably priced solid product, is alive and well, and we'll all benefit from it whether racing or funning.
Oh, the Class win ? Good old Naveed and his slower but consistantly finishing UL-1 motor powered Mean Machine scored the most points
Nortavlag Bulc 
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