So Cal Race for Brushless 1/8th scale conversions

[MetalMan]

It was a lot of fun! We didn't get any video footage or anything like that (that I'm aware of anyway). There were a total of eight electric 1/8 on the track, four of which were Tekno buggies (marzac, riceman, Matthew Armeni, and teknorc, all members of this forum), two other buggies owned by guys whose names unfortunately I did not remember, a truggy that some guy borrowed off of one of the guys whose name I don't remember, and my buggy.

The guy who drove the truggy won by a decent margin. But he had a clear advantage over our buggies in the whoops section at the front straight-away as he could easily fly through it (for some of us, including myself, our buggies would occasionally catch air and flip around because of the whoops).

In the first qualifier, marzac got first place beating me in second by 12sec. Then came Dan from teknorc in third, only 5sec. behind. My memory cannot recall the placement of the other drivers (we were all tired, after not sleeping much from waking up so early). In the second qualifier, my switch turned off about 10sec. into the first lap. In this round, the truggy came in and got first, followed by marzac, teknorc, myself, and again my memory doesn't recall the rest. I'm pretty sure we finished in the same placement in the 10min. main, except one of the other guys beat me and I got 5th. My decreased performance was definitely due to an increase in start power and switching my throttle curve from exponential to logarithmic.

We are all definitely going to be meeting up again for another 1/8 electric race, but the location I do not know as of now. But the new ARC track sounds like it will be a great place to meet up.

[jnev]

Sounds like a killer time. Please do let me know where/when the next race is. I really do want finally start racing or even try racing...

[Matthew_Armeni]

My wife got some video with ricemans camera so he should have it up sometime this week. I had to check out before the main but I heard it was a good showing. Can't wait until next time!

[MetalMan]

Oh, awesome! Didn't realize there was a camera floating around.

[Matthew_Armeni]

Here's some pics of us marshalling, not the most exciting thing I know but don't worry, riceman's video editing is almost done, it should be up soon.

[MetalMan]

Heh, there I am in the 2nd pic next to cone #8. Funny I was posing for the camera without knowing it!

[jnev]

That looks like such a fun track. Those jumps look huge from the pictures... they look as big as the one at the RCM bash last year. Looking froward to the video.

[marzac2]

Originally Posted by MetalMan

Heh, there I am in the 2nd pic next to cone #8. Funny I was posing for the camera without knowing it!

Hey man, you are posing like you knew the picture was being taken.

Looking forward to the video.

[riceman]

It was a blast. It was great meeting up with everyone and running together. I do have some video that I'll get posted up this week. In the meantime there are some great photos on the JBRL site. I've weeded out all of the 1/8th stuff in the next few posts. But the photography is great. You should go there and check out the 1/10th pics.


Metalman's rig

[riceman]

Teknorc's RC8

[riceman]

My ride (Jammin CR)

Me with my trusty 3PK immediately after swapping out the Nomadio gear the decided to take a dump that day.


My Jammin with the "I don't want to run a RTR body so paint one the day before
shell".

Trying to turn in mid flight?

[riceman]

Marzac's buggy

[riceman]

Matthew's 8T



A nitro driver's (if they were there) view

[riceman]

The Thunder Alley guys






One of the Thunder Alley guys. Another Thunder Alley guy. Prepare for landing.

The *cough - cheater- cough* truggy

[jnev]

How come the pictures no worky...?