A quick heads up...

The club will not be open 20th June... it's the SDRCC Offroad round 4 at the Stonehaven race track. So will be there to have a good days racing :).

I have tried were possible not to clash with events like this but it will happen from time to time. What I would love to do in the future if this happens is to make a club 'day out' of it and go down to take part in the event :)

I'll post again closer to the 20th June to remind anyone interested again.

Awesome day!

This past Sunday was excellent... my Buddy and his family came to visit the club and have a drive around.

We were testing the new club Ansmann Master Smacker and boy did it get a good testing...it was driven for hours and took some knocks but came out all fit and well at the end of the day.

Was fantastic fun watching the kids race around and get better and better as they drove... Matthew (12) was doing very well by the end of the day and landing some good jumps and was even power sliding!.. his little sister Jody was doing very well too, especially over the jump.

A good day was had by all...

I'm so impressed with the Smacker that I'm going to get another for the club..and I've also just ordered a Royal Flash (based on the Smacker) for myself....going to hop it up with new shocks, monster truck/rock crawling style wheels and a new Proline stadium truck body shell....

General Update

This coming Sunday (May 23rd) will be a simple track design again with a single ramp to start with. Might alter it later to have the split ramp and bottle neck design, have not managed to pick up the last couple of Hoses needed for more complex tracks but should have these for next meeting.

Hopefully will have a couple of new drivers popping down for a try and I might even have the first Club Car available... an Ansmann master Smacker 4x4!! The very same car at the top of the page...

It's still going to be mainly practice laps and just running around for fun till I sort out lap counting. Have almost got the software figured out so can hold races soon and hopefully will be able to carpet part of the hall to allow different surfaces to race on and provide grip for the more technical sections of future track designs.

In the next few meets racing can start properly. I'm hoping to start some form of club championship in August that will run over the autumn and winter months.

I'm still considering changing to a monthly format but currently I'm sticking to every 2 weeks as listed on the lower right of the blog. The advantage of the 2 week schedule is the possibility of running a different class ever second meeting...I really would love to support 1:18th scale off roading as well as 1:10 and holding the different classes on alternate weeks could be great fun.

Great Work Dan!!

"Much-More UK team driver, Dan Rowlands, TQ's and wins the first 4WD off road Scottish regional event at Stonehaven using a Kyosho ZX5-FS powered by Much-More UK supplied 4200mah, 30C LiPo saddle packs which were charged with a Muchmore Hybrid charger and pushed along by his Team Wave 6.5 motor!! Dan was the only driver to get into 13 seconds for a single lap and also beat the entire field by over 1 lap."

I'll be there on the next round... :)

Round 1 of the Scottish Championships

This Sunday the 16th of May is the first round of the Scottish 1/10th offroad championships and it's being held in Stonehaven...

I'll be popping down but might not be able to race due to others things I must do that day :(

Will be a great day!

First drive day!!

Okay..so it was just me, my Bro and the track...almost complete track. But it was good fun and 4 hours past very quickly.

We had a casualty though. My Bro's Master Smacker took a couple of full on hits onto his front right suspension and he ended up bending the pins and snapping the lower arm. Should be an easy fix though for next time.

I am however considering a change to the schedule and making this a monthly thing rather then every two weeks. Considering it can take up to 14 days to get some spares I'd rather people be able to drive in stead of fretting over weather they will get spares in time for next race :)

I'll keep everyone informed about this. For now though next race will still be May 23rd

J