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Originally Posted by Freakypen
Oops You've got me wrong-I wasnt disrespecting anyone haha! I was having a go at Mark ( noreargrip ) as he is my brother!! And I'm sponsored by Horizon hobby UK-thats the losi connection.
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No worries...an intrafamilial Losi-AE rivalry, eh? Can you get sponsorship if you aren't any good? Like in cricket, where the tail-enders don't get a bat sponsor, but plenty of protective equipment - "Look, that's my 14th crash tonight, and I still haven't broken anything!" - Mark's suggestion of turning up with a truck has merit in that regard...
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Originally Posted by jimlee
TC racing at CVMCC would require a lot of hard earned cash being spent and at the minute I feel that "If it's not broken then why try to fix it?"
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My post earlier on the subject was about how TC racing could be done without deep pockets - using cheaper cars, longer-lasting shells and hopefully slightly harder tyres. Did you know that the BRCA has CVMCC listed as racing both buggies and TCs?
http://www.brca.org/Clubs
That's partly why I showed up that first night with a TC. I've managed to acquire some narrow blue mini-pins specifically for CVMCC, and hope to put my theories in practice, once I've got the buggy sorted! Variety is the spice of life...
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Originally Posted by mole2k
It's a pitty really that polished floor racing is dying out as I've always quite enjoyed racing on the slippery stuff as well as racing on grippier surfaces. I think really we need to get an off-road track sorted if there is the interest. I for one would love to race outdoors, a nice astroturf track at craigavon would be great if there was going to be the support to race on it.
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I'd be interested too...astroturf would be the most viable surface here, as any bare or thinly grassed earth would turn any race into a mud crawl!
The slippery stuff is certainly a deep-end experience for a noob (as I have found!) - on astroturf, the difference between A finalists and the newbies is maybe three laps, whereas on polished wood, it's more like 10-15. It might be worth putting something up on the CVMCC site about the special setup requirements for that surface, though nothing too technical to scare off the novice.