GREAT Britain
It’s that time of year, pack your suntan lotion, shades, grab a beach towel, board that plane and top up that tan! Right? Not necessarily... for many of you reading this blog, maybe it’s more a time to condense all of your racing gear into as small a packages as possible and do your best to convince customs that despite the variety of wires and radio controlled devices you really do mean no harm; get your EFRA license ready, and go and take on the continent!


Yes, the home nations will be represented at a European sporting event this summer, move over Gerrard and Rooney as this week’s blog is dedicated to all the British drivers competing at this year’s European Championships in both 1/8th off road and 1/10th electric off road in Greece and Italy respectively, occurring just...

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This week’s blog is derived from a question asked by woOdy. Sorry for the late response to this question, please in future could all questions be sent to Mrs Oople to ensure a quicker response.

woOdy asks: Need help! I am at the point of my career where I have been racing for many years at the top half of the leader board and now I am at a cross road. Do I carry on and not really getting anywhere, or do I quit! Do I try something new? Please help.

It’s interesting how over the space of a few weeks, the blog has gone from each end of the racing career spectrum - from gaining new racers and encouraging beginners, to now the potentially more depressing subject of when it is time to hang up that transmitter and pay a visit to your good friend, Mr E. Bay.

Yours is an interesting predicament woOdy. From the sounds of it, it seems as though you have been...

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A big Re-sponsor-bility!

Signing your name on a contract, strategically placing your sponsors logos/decals onto your cars, receiving heavily discounted or even free products... ah, the joys of being a sponsored driver. Sounds great doesn’t it?

Sponsorship is a privilege, it’s something to be proud of if you get the honour bestowed upon you, but to define the role in the way I have previously is rather inaccurate, it carries with it great responsibility and becomes a more complex role the higher up the sponsor ladder you become.

In this week’s blog, I’d like to cover the topic of sponsorship in 3 stages. Firstly, I would like to cover some of the myths attached to sponsorship in RC racing or some of the common misconceptions that those hoping to be sponsored, and those that are already, have about it.
Then I will offer you some tips...

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I sew some of my seed a week last Monday and the effects so far are quite cool. I'll get a pic tonight.

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Northy

This weeks blog entry is an answer to a question submitted by one of our fans.

1. Why are we still running 5 minutes heats? I mean... 15 years ago cells only had 1700mAh, nowadays cells have more than twice that, but we're still running 5 minutes heats.
Why don't we run 10 or even 15 minutes heats? Looking even further, lipo batteries allow even more run time, so we could run 15 minutes heats with 30 minutes finals with one battery change.

a/ A few years ago, I recall reading an interview with an American pro racer in a magazine, he was asked the question whether he preferred racing back home in the USA where at the time, electric qualifiers and finals were 4 minutes in length, or whether indeed he preferred racing in Europe or at world championships where races were 5 minutes long- his response was this, “I don’t care how long I have... it never feels as...

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