Righto, Managed to get to the track today for a couple of hours.
Pleasantly surprised by the cars performance, I ran a couple of my practice batteries through to get used to the way she drove, then dropped in my Lipo and started putting in some aggressive laps, It loved being thrown hard into corners, I was easily able to catch the slide and power out, I was able to pick my lines and stick to them at whatever speed I wanted to travel at, to the point of laying down too much power and losing traction.
So, In box standard form it handled my 8,5 brushless pretty good, I wouldn't want to go any faster until the shocks were replaced, Had plenty of moments where the car got skittery and I had to back off, especially down the main straight where holding her on the power caused it to enter the corner way out of control.
I still stand by my initial assessment, Compared to cars that are only a bit more expensive it doesn't present great value for money considering the shortcuts taken by Tamiya, But if your heart is set on racing a Tamiya or if your budget is limited to the price of the DB-01, It will do the job pretty well. (New Zealand prices)
The track I race on is hard packed with a patchy and very dusty surface, Shes pretty unforgiving and a real handful to drive on at high speed.
My DF-03 in comparison was near impossible to drive around the track at any pace even after I spent boatloads of cash on it.
Oh yeah, day finished with a very low speed glancing blow on a piece of timer that tore the rear arm off....
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