My subby for RRC has just expired after about 15 years. I see this "proper racer" Vs basher from both sides as I race AND bash, a lot of you guys forget the fun of just going out and giving them hell for leather with no rules, but I digress.
The content in RRC has, in my opinion, (cos I'm allowed one having read it every month for the above time) gone down hill as far as racing is concerned, it is called radio "race" car but, what I dont see is, articles like it's former rival "Radio Control Model Cars" mag used to have, like for example, a euros report or even better, a detailed look at a top racers car. Then the article after would be one a budget kit or something.
The thing about RRC nowadays is that one can only read so many reviews of an LRP buggy/truggy or a Savage. Maybe the Ed is running out of ideas, I miss the RC motorbike reports, and come to think of it, the large scale off road reports too. Drifting isn't as exciting as either of those imo, maybe the Ed can ask again for bike reports and lose something else, er...like the crawling for instance. unfortunately, you can't please all the people all the time.
The mag seems to mirror what the Ed is in to. When the late Dez Chand was in the seat, it was racing, bikes, large scale, rally X etc, now its Pete Gray (there's more than one apparently) it's all crawling, drifting, crawling and anything HPI or CML pop in the post, a worksop report (yeah ok, I've seen and heard enough about "Muzzy" and co the last year or two to last me a life time (no offence Mark Christopher
), a bit of 12th and.....that's it really.
I did like the Americana column and the RRC unwinds column as it had something different as racers here are a little short sighted when it comes to supporting anything that isn't hardcore race fodder. Monster Trucks for instance. "they're not proper race machines", who cares, lets race em anyway, or just plough them in to home made ramps and damn the consequences
, shocking.
It also has to be said, The magazine DOES have a place. I've just started a casual interest in to RC helicoptors, what's the 1st thing I did? Buy a heli mag. I personally feel that, for me, the previous has run it's course.