Off road or not?

[K-Brewer]

Off road buggies, do we do them justice by running indoors or should we set them free by running outdoors when we have the chance? Opinions would be great guys

[cunawarit]

In many ways I find indoors more fun, specially as there's way less to clean after racing.

[K-Brewer]

Yeah I see the cleaning part but using a off road buggy indoors pains me as love the bumps an jumps of an off road circuit an cleaning is all part of the daily grime

[Danny Harrison]

Originally Posted by Zippy Wizz Kidd

Yeah I see the cleaning part but using a off road buggy indoors pains me as love the bumps an jumps of an off road circuit an cleaning is all part of the daily grime

Id say you need to visit some better indoor tracks if your not getting bumps and jumps. York is excellent for this with awesome rythem section, awkward bumps on corners and entering jumps etc. Makes the tracks there really challenging too. Batley indoors is also real good for this, but maybe a bit far away.

Outdoors is ace too though, but I love them both.

[Robby]

Since when does mandatory excessive cleaning & maintenance equate to off-road?

At that rate > Is it actually racing if we're doing it with toy cars instead of real cars?

[Origineelreclamebord]

For me, if the grip becomes extremely high, it feels more like onroad with jumps than offroad - this is usually only the case indoors on carpet (like the EOS).

I really prefer outdoors - most indoor tracks seem to be ill prepared to keep your car intact in a bad crash (A concrete floor that is left exposed, walls at the end of a straight that don't have any damping structure on there to prevent broken shocktowers, sharp edges, hard barriers and awkward places to get your car stuck or break your car on, etc) - the lighting isn't good enough for the best action pictures, and there are a couple other reasons why to me outdoors is superior - even when that means you'll have to completely rebuild your car because the clay is stuck everywhere!

I think I also feel most at home on dirt/clay and wet astroturf My car, setup and me as a driver just seem to work better as the surface requires some sliding!

That said, it's all good fun, and indoor tracks are the bomb when the season is not suitable to run outdoors But when it's above 10 degrees and the track is not covered with leafs, snow or a flash flood, I will pick to drive outside any day!

(This leaves me to conclude it might be cool to have a retractable (stadium) roof over a track)

[jsw123]

Originally Posted by Zippy Wizz Kidd

Off road buggies, do we do them justice by running indoors or should we set them free by running outdoors when we have the chance? Opinions would be great guys

Having done my second race weekend, outdoors again, I can honestly say indoors can not do them justice. It's like indoor 5-a-side, it's fine when the weather is crap but let's face it the premiership is never gonna be an indoor league. I really want to find a dirt track now, sod the cleaning!

[dicky14]

indoors or outdoors it doesnt matter, we do it for the thrill of competition, west bridgford run an excellent indoor offroad series through winter, so does worksop and they have ex world champs racing at that venue. As for club meets we run at mansfield and have some very challenging jumps and such like with 2 types of carpet so the grip varies, the tracks that get laid are very challenging and test the best drivers out there, if you want indoor offroad come and pay us a visit, racing starts at 7pm wednesday nights