Hello.
I'm going to tell you my experience racing my DF-03 last sunday, I hope you find it interesting. The race was the 2th of the Bizkaia provincial championship in the city of Bilbao. We have quite good weather but with some wind (The circuit is on the top of a big hill?. The format of the race is 3 qualifications of 5 minutes and 3 finals of 6 minutes, the same than the spanish national.
I use along the race the same setup that worked perfectly the day before in the training, 3Racing shocks with Losi red coils in the front, pink in the rear, Corally's 30 oil in all the shock with 2 hole pistons. 1º of toe in in the front wheels and 1º of camber in the four wheels. My servo is one KO-713, an LRP IPC V7.1 ESC with a LRP Fushion Phase 4.1 12x2T. Tamiya's 21T pinnion and 78T spur. Ofcourse with tamiya's sleeper and central one-way.
In the first qualification I used Intellect 3800 NiMh normal batteries. I fininhed first, a very good start. I was 1.5 second far from the fastet lap but with really regular laps.
In the sencond and third qualifications I finished at 3th place also using Intellec 3800 batteries. I lose some time after a bad landing in one jump each time but with the strong wind that we had every jump was an small lottery. In both qualificantions I finished at less than one second of the 2th racer. But this was enought to give me the second place for the finals .
In the first final I went on with the great setup of the car but now running with GP 3900 batteries in the 3 finals. I just get the first possition after the start overcoming the previous driver in the first curve. For the finals I decided to Give up jumping long to avoid problems with the wind and I didn't lost this first possition.
In the second final I finish at 3th possition. Finally I couldn't finish the 3th final becouse 2 drivers hits my car at the same time and all the electronic of my car was totally disconected
. But after all I finished in the second place the race with 12 laps in 6:13.715 seconds.
Here you can see a few pictures of the race. I hope you like it.
Good bye.