There are tracks around here in the region. But for me anyway even just running at a track (not to mention an organized race) is a PIA. For one, here in Germany you have "quiet time" EVERY DAY from 1-3 pm. I recently got a good deal on a used truggy, and was going to drive about 90 minutes away (here where normal 1:1 car fuel costs €1.73 a liter..) on Saturday to run on a pretty nice track with some guys from a German forum who are actually pretty cool, but the father in law has made an appointment to build a table for our kitchen... Then I wanted to hit the local track here in town on Sunday... Nope - 1/5 on road championships... Off-road track closed.

Point is - it's always something with running on a freakin' track. If it's not those things, it's rain putting the track out of commission for days afterwards... And it's closed anyway half the year.. To get really serious into racing, you pretty much need a camper van to travel all over the freakin' country.. And really, racing is all about set-up, and I just can't care that much about what oil is in my diffs or what degree of this that or whatever I have or whether I have the "in" shock pistons or whatever it is people freakin' talk about in racing forums.. Racing and the mentality that goes with it are the antithesis of what I find cool about RC to be honest.. I'm sure around the world there are people with cool tracks and better weather and the people are great and everything.. But I'm a nitro freak.. What can I say? And if all I can do is run them in parking lots, that's what I'll do... Started breaking in my RB Fire 11 - on an agricultural access road next to the autobahn, last weekend.. And looking forward to hitting the parking lot this weekend.. Whenever I feel like it. Five minutes away. For free.