Video of my Optima Mid against modern cars last night

[J77MYF]

I raced at my local club (10 Electric) last night. Unfortunately the vintage class was cancelled due to the meeting being very busy and not enough time to fit it in. Luckily someone dropped out of modern 4wd so I still got to drive it. I managed to qualify in pole and finished in 2nd which I was happy with considering it's just a bog standard mid.

For anyone who's interested the YouTube link is:

http://youtu.be/MrltpPpB1G0

[Migs]

That's really cool mate. I love it when the vintage cars still show they've got it against the modern runners

[Essex2Visuvesi]

Just out of interest were you running a brushed motor?
The reason I ask is that on a polished wood floor getting the power down smoothly is the key.... And in many cases the modern brushless motor is just too much.
When we raced indoors, the winner of the tc series was running an old brushed motor and was the most consistent throughout the season.
Sometimes there is such a thing as too much power

[J77MYF]

Originally Posted by Essex2Visuvesi

Just out of interest were you running a brushed motor?
The reason I ask is that on a polished wood floor getting the power down smoothly is the key.... And in many cases the modern brushless motor is just too much.
When we raced indoors, the winner of the tc series was running an old brushed motor and was the most consistent throughout the season.
Sometimes there is such a thing as too much power

It has a 10.5 brushless orca motor in it. I think any more power would be too much in that size hall.

[OptimaFan]

Nice race! Without those couple of rollovers, you would have kept that pole the whole race, I think. Also good to see that comeback from 3rd place to close to taking the lead again, and then another rollover created too much distance to make up before the race ended.

[J77MYF]

Originally Posted by OptimaFan

Nice race! Without those couple of rollovers, you would have kept that pole the whole race, I think. Also good to see that comeback from 3rd place to close to taking the lead again, and then another rollover created too much distance to make up before the race ended.

I know what you mean. A couple of silly mistakes and I handed it away but hopefully next time I can keep it clean