I had so much fun, it just might be.

I have been flying RC planes for, man I am old, 40 years now, helicopters for 10 years. I have had RC cars on and off for many years. I have two trucks right now. I have a Traxxas Revo 3.3 and a DHK Raz-R. Yet I have never been to an RC car track. Well I went for the first time last night. I went the SDRC Raceway in San Diego. What a great place!!!!!!!!

My brother and I both have Raz-R's. We have bashed a little here and there, mostly in our yards at family get togethers. We stated talking about going to a track. I looked and there is SDRC and CVRC. It just worked out that SDRC was closer to where we work. We were sort of worried being total newbie nut jobs, we would have problems with the long time racers and other people who can drive like their cars are on fire. Well, we walked in, put our stuff on the table, went and paid, got setup, walked around and pout the cars on the track, walked to the stands. Then the smile came out. We were not able to drive more then 20 feet without hitting something or going off the track. We were laughing and having a grand ole time. As we went around the track we started to get a little faster and better at keeping it on the track.

Brother slid into the wall and would only turn right and mine was acting strange so we pulled the cars off the track and went to the pits. We found out that we both broke or bent the dog bones. We had spares so we changed them. We pulled the batteries and put them on the chargers, put fresh batteries in the trucks and headed for the stands. We started to get a little more comfortable with all the people, cars trucks and carnage on the track. We never had an issue with the old pros with a poor driving. They just said we would get better the more we drove. Every one seemed to be having a great time.

I had the stock tires on my truck. The worked great with a dry track. After they watered the track with a hose, mine would fill up with clay and I had slicks, it was more like drifting then anything else. My brother had Gladiators and they seemed to work well no matter what. I did see almost every one else had the clay pattern tires on. I may pick up a set and see how they work for next time.

There are some very hard core people there. They roll an entire shop in for their cars. One guy had two roller boxes of parts and tools for his 2 cars. You could tell the guys who lived this for their fun. They had lights, racks, and every tool you could have. They were intense in how they setup their cars.

After tearing up (4) dog bones for me and (2) for my brother, we packed up and headed for home. It was so much fun, it might just be illegal. We are planning on going back again in 2 weeks. Just enough time to get parts and new tires. That was $15.00 well spent.


Buzz.

P.S. now looking for another truck.