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Originally Posted by Xizor
My point was SlowOne, is that driving an RC car is very different to driving a real car.
It takes many hours for the steering to become completely natural when the car is coming towards you. Well it did for me, maybe you took to it immediately. I just think a group of average Joe's are going to get very frustrated very quickly. And, as I said, some people never seem to get it, although they are perfectly good real car drivers.
I hope I'm proved wrong and it's a roaring success!
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Agree with your point, mine being that providing the cars provided are slow enough, there is time to think and it's not difficult to do. Since it seems they'll have to show they can drive on Mini Zs, and demonstrate the right attitude on those cars, they'll be fine.
Yes, the bit about learning left from right is something people always mention. The reality is that when you drive a track, one corner follows another. If you went one way on the stick for one corner, you simply go the other way (or the same way) for the next. Having to follow a track means that the question of which way to steer never comes into it. Everyone I've ever shown an RC car to on a track has taken to the steering easily. It's when people start by bashing in the open that this problem arises!
The question people never ask is "how do you know how the car is handling when you're not sitting in it?!!" And that's the real puzzle of RC to me - how do we learn that? I can tell you what my car is doing on the track, despite it being a 12th car and each corner being over in less than a second! If anyone knows the answer to that one...
Sounds to me that the Moto Arena guys have a good plan if they intend to get people going on MiniZs, and then let them loose on something more powerful. Learning to drive an RC car is only hard if you go to a Club with your Tamiya, and then swap it out straight away for something powered by a low-turn BL and a LiPo. How often do we see that happen? Too often...
I think MKTCRC are having their first meeting on 8th August - the GT10 is being prepared in readiness!!
