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Three other people haven driven it last weekend, all three more experienced and quicker drivers than me:
- Arjan (Janus_77): A six (or seven?) time Dutch-Belgian Championship winner.
- Tom (Tomboo_91): A Dutch-Belgian Championship driver who drives A-finals or high B-finals.
- Koen, An onroad driver who won the F1 B-finals of the 2013 ETS in Apeldoorn (and has a very impressive list of wins on his onroad portfolio).

Arjan (posted in this thread):

Originally Posted by janus_77

Ok, I've seen it a couple of times now. Even got to drive a few times also. Untill this point it was a nice novelty project, but now it's really starting to come together.

It was entered into a vintage race today driven by the designer Paul Dijkstra ( as a really bad replica of a Kyosho Maxxum FF ) and it was pretty quick to start with, and Paul was messing around with a few things during the day. Some worked, some did not. But by the time the qualifications were over it was keeping up with the fastest of the Losi XX's and RC10's. It was just that Paul was sometimes in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But the last main he had a bit of luck and had a clear track, just look a his best time and the best time of the winning car ( ARRC10, was entered as a car since it was driven by muliple drivers ). The AC210FF also had a fastest lap that was about 0,7 faster than anyone else. Granted it was on the surface it was made to live on, really low grip dusty clay, but still it's starting to get onto the same pace as the normal buggies.

It will be interesting to see if it will get even better with a bit more tinkering

Keep up the good work Paul

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Tom: 'This is really nice!'
Koen: 'It's kind of too easy to drive!'

I can ask Tom and Koen them to make their own statements as I'm not going to write down quotes that they didn't make... but overall I think I can summarize that the people who drove it, liked it

Tomboo was the only guy to jump with the car other than me, and he said it was a handful to jump...

...And to be honest, when you haven't driven it for a full day yet, indeed it is: I wasn't confident enough to jump the car over all jumps until the third heat, and until the second final my jumps were a bit inconsistent. However, I think the 14-lap result of the third final heat shows that with a bit of training and setup in the right ballpark, lap times come a long way!

The thing is, when you jump it like a RWD it will nose-dive. The trick is to apply more throttle in the air and it will remain perfectly level or even have the nose pointed in the air (and yes, I will post pictures of this soon). Also, over really small jumps (or should I say, big bumps) it might also nose-dive a bit, and a quick burst of throttle really helps there. This is why the 6.5T motor comes in handy, even with a low punch setting

Edit:
I've put some new pictures in the album, something like this: