[Aussie Top Force]

I gave the XM another run for its money against some stiff competition yesterday, at the first "Sweep Cup", held at Castlehill, Sydney Australia.

Whilst, my driving still needs some work, the XM platform is not suitable for off road where traction is not consistently "high". I can see that it would be great on astro turf or manicured "sugared" track. It jumps well and cornered well at high speed (were grip was up) but, it had too much over steer where the track had low traction and it cost too much time. If you could stick to the "blue" line you could get a decent lap time, but trying to avoid other cars or make a move sent it sideways. They did sweep the track, which made things a lot better for Q3, but it was all too late by then.

So I'm going to covert it back to XR spec and see if I can drive it more consistently on a future visit to Castlehill. BTW TQ was a rear motor TLR 22.2.

I haven't given up on mid motor though. I keenly await the TRF 201 Mid Motor worlds kit, which moves the motor and batteries further back and sweeps the rear arms forward. Rear motor cars that were having success yesterday had more wait to the rear than the XM.