After a layoff from racing for over a decade, I received a rrci subscription for xmas and have so far been quite disappointed with what I have seen vs rrci from the late 90's.
sure, the r/c scene is somewhat different these days but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of coverage given to toys/bashing. there is hardly any coverage of the "premier" racing events (nationals, us invitationals etc) and virtually no reviews on 10th OR equipment. why no reviews on any of the current crop of buggies? even if they have been reviewed x years ago, why not re-review them to see how they fare in the modern racing world? for example, the b44 review in rrci was done using Nimh - why not re-review it with Lipo and show how the team tune the cars etc? I actually found an old rrci last night (from 1998 I think) with a really interesting piece that Craig Drescher did on the Yokomo YZ10 that showed how the team were developing the car etc.
on the subject of race reports, how does a rock crawling event justify taking 4+ pages when the Worksop indoor (the premier winter race series for 10th OR) struggled to get a couple of pages the previous month? and why no coverage from the OR nationals - hasn't there already been 4 rounds?
I could go on, but i wont. It looks like rrci has a new "direction" that seems to be at odds with the racing fraternity and I for one, wont be renewing my subs when they expire unless Radio Race Car International gets some more Race Car stuff in it...
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