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Originally Posted by Oh How Original
Sorry not sure what s/h means?
And it's actually not as small as it looks, if I remember correctly he said it's 60ft wide and 100ft long, plus they regularly change the track, so sometimes it's set-up for faster stuff, sometimes more tight and technical, which I like the idea of.
They mostly seem to run Schumacher Mi4's and Xray T4's I believe they are.
They also do Supastox, although I'm not sure it'd be for me personally.
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There's no way that track is 60ftx100ft! It's half that, those are 4m rolls of carpet and it is 2 and a half rolls wide, track depth is a tight 8 lanes which would be around 16m.
TC's greatest curse is the tendency for people to buy "bling" cars and accessories that you don't really need, particularly at the club level. An Mi1 is just as fast around the track as any of the newest high-end cars (if there is a gap, it can be measured in tenths) - like all RC racing, it's driving, tyres and motors that make you fast, and on a small track like that motors make hardly any difference.
The choice between a high-end second hand car and a new low-end car is a personal one. Some second hand cars are well cared for bargains, others are overpriced bodge jobs. You won't know until you buy it. I would go new, and the Mi1 is a UK manufacturers car with good support. Some of the far eastern imports have a more modern spec but support is thin on the ground.
As far as motors and ESCs go, the club is sure to have a motor limit - so buy that wind of motor. There are some very decent sensored motor and ESC combos available from UK stockists these days, the Speed Passion Reventon combos are very competitively priced right now and come with a good BRCA legal motor.
Other electrics shouldn't be too hard to piece together, I'm not generally a fan of mid-price electrics but the Alturn brand seems to be working well for a few local racers.
LiPos should be in a hard case, any modern pack will do for stock racing. If you can get away with recharging the same LiPo throughout the racing you only need one (I only have one).
Apart from the electrics you have tyres and setup to worry about, but to be hionest it's quite straightforward; good tyres work, and a well built car works too. Just concentrate on the driving.