A little Monday F1 Mayhem

New Years Eve, off from work, so I went up to Mikes for some carpet practice. Robert met me there as he was going to break in his new Exotek F1R. (Mine is still in construction) Ended up with 5 F1 cars on the track running and playing it was a good time. Me and Robert (ok Robert and I) decided to get narrow F1Rs, I having just sold my original F1R was already missing it, so no problem. I will buy another. My intentions were easy, I have a problem, I like RC cars. Good excuse, get another. Roberts was intent on finding out if in fact "wider is better". I will say that after one day of track tests and probably less than 5 packs through it, we dont know. But I do know that, Robert was turning lap times of 10.9, just like he turns them in his Ultra. Disgusting. He really is good though. My Ultra is still doing well, might gear it up, or even down a tooth, not sure. I am running 11.5 lap times, but I still havent had one magic flying lap where everything is millimeter perfect. Work in progress, F1 RULES>

And, we are back

Finally, after over a month away from all things RC, I got back on the track this past weekend. I planned on running F1, WGT and 1/12, but no WGT and the only 1/12 action was mod. No way I am running mod this new into 1/12. Don't want my CRC to turn to bits just yet. So we ran F1, good turn out of 6. Robert won (of course) in his silvercan/stock F103, while the rest of mere mortals followed him. Actually, Mitch (with Roberts Ultra) and Doug (Ultra) put a lot of heat on him, but in the end, it was the same story. I dont know where I finished, I think 4th, good runs with Scott and Tom as usual. We are pretty evenly matched in the driving department, so its good racing for the mid packers. Something new we tried was the pit stops during a regular 6 minute main. It added something to the racing just as we expected, even with a short race. Adds some strategy and some excitement. Win/win.

During my hiatus I sold my F1R to someone up at Mikes so he will be joining us on the carpet maybe this week. But I got a wild hair Friday night, and I ordered another F1R along with Robert so I will be back to having a 2 car garage this week. I also bought an old XRay T2-2007 to get back into VTA, I bought another Sakura Zero S and an HPI Blitz SC, both for my soon to be 4 year old son as Christmas presents. Plus I will play with them too, I am not fooling anyone, I realize that, so don't call me out on it.

Sons's Sakura Zero S, HPI Blitz and Hot Wheels track

The F1 Posse, December 2012 Edition

Tom, Mitch, me, Scott, Robert and Doug

My Red XRay T2 2007

Happy Christmas everyone!!

I'm sorry

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much. I work for UPS, and we are very busy this time of year. Very busy. almost 120 hours in the last 2 weeks. I have had very little free time at all. I haven't been to the track since mid November, I haven't even worked on any of my cars, although I painted up a new WGT and Racer Robert painted me up a 1/12 body. I have bought my son a Sakura Zero S and an HPI Blitz SC for Christmas, he loves to hang out with Daddy in the garage so now he will have 2 cars to get him started in RC. And I admit, with the Sakura, I might borrow it to throw down some VTA laps here and there. So for another 2 weeks, I am pretty much out of RC action. I will post up anything I might hear, but I haven't even been on RCTech in 2 weeks. Looking forward to hitting the track again. F1, WGT, 1/12 and maybe even VTA. But not til January. Happy Christmas to all that celebrate it, and happy everything else to those that don't.

New F1 Body from SpeedPassion?

I thank my buddy Zach for bringing this to my attention. But it appears we have a pretty cool looking body from Speed Passion called the F68.

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Speedpassion is proud to introduce the new F-68 1/10th scale Formula 1 body. The new F-68 body takes customization and tuning to a new level in the rapidly growing 1/10 scale F1 racing
segment. Racers can mix and match the included 4 interchangeable nose profiles and 2 interchangeable rear fins to create their own personalized F1 car. Along with the 4 front nose profiles and 1 rear fins, the body includes a driver’s helmet, double-sided tape, a decal set, and assembly instructions. The F-68 body fits all popular 1/10th scale racing chassis on the market.