At my local carpet track (1/10 scale) the 21.5 buggy class is meant for new/intermediate drivers… but all the guys that have been racing for years and cant podium in 17.5 just move down to 21.5 😆
Totally agree. I started racing on road club level asphalt racing earlier this year. I run both 21 SPEC and MOD. SPEC is riddled with expenses and politics. My experience has been that you learn a lot more in MOD. Good content Mr Roach. Love the vids.
another one…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great video and appreciate your informative insight as always. your channel never disappoints when pertaining to the racing aspect of RC. where it seems a lot of other channels are veering towards the bashing or some kind of endorsement grab…you have kept it consistent for the racers. 🤙🏼
I started racing 1/8 off-road since about a year ago now at our club track, about 20-30 guys over 10 races and managed to get 3rd in ebuggy championship. Next week will be my first time travelling to race (Fall Brawl). Signed up for Sportsman because it's my first event away from home. Really looking forward to it.
Agree with all your points, started with TT02 for a month then Tried stock TC for 1 week as a beginner, wasn’t my cup of tea with the wallet wars involved, changed to mod ever since and never looked back.
At the last statewide race I attended a driver who was clearly intermediate sandbagged into sportsman and won every heat and main by multiple laps. Quite disheartening, especially when you realized he was the track owner. Stuff like this is what keeps me from wanting to invest my vacation time and money into travel racing.
Hello, I would just like to share my thoughts and experiences with the topic’s covered in this video. In regards to the 1/8 scale stuff first. The first time I ever went to a race where they offered intermediate and expert classes was 2018. It was totally new to me and right away I interpreted it as sponsored or unsponsored. I thought, well sponsored is probably pro and unsponsored is intermediate. Now I was unsponsored so I signed up for intermediate. When the race started I was surprised to see that pretty much everyone was in the pro class and hardly anyone was in the intermediate class. Now a days it’s a lot different between the classes. Just recently I had someone telling me that they were done with the pro class because everyone in the class was out for the win and didn’t care about good driving behavior and will drive over anyone to win so they were going back to the intermediate class. I only race the intermediate class so I don’t really know what the pro class is like. As for the 1/10 scale stock or mod discussion, years ago hardly anyone bothered with the stock classes, in fact at the one indoor track I use to go to, the 17.5 turnout was so low that the owner one day came out and said that he wasn’t even going to offer it anymore and that was the end of it. I like mod really, it’s the better one I think, just because of the power always being there. One thing I couldn’t stand about stock was the power fade throughout a race, all of the sudden you can’t make it over a jump towards the end of a race; that sucked I thought. Maybe it’s different now, I don’t know, maybe the motors are stronger now 🤷♂️ Now a days it seems like stock is it though which surprises me and saddens me at the same time
as i see it stock is out of hand in terms of what i see on YT from A-main and other chanals that promoting stock, its alot of parts titanium screws turnbuckles and slipper eliminators carbon A-arms and gearboxes and lots of other parts to the point its almost nothing that is out of the kit box. in the end its a huge extra cost to be one of "the fast" guys in stock it seems. well to be fair drivers like Ryan harris doing good in stock eaven if his cars appere to not be littered with option parts i know he got some expensive parts like the R1 works gearbox for his AE b7 and carbon A-arms, might be eaven more parts he dont anounce. where i live we only race mod in 1:10 buggy so its like Roach says that its a kit and some miner upgrades and the motor gives plenty of power, no need to go bananas on the bank account just to get a good car built buy every avalable option part.
@ hey, you hit it right on the button, that’s just it, you got to buy all the good stuff to be good. Me I just slapped a stock motor into my kit only car using regular sized LIPO’s and halfway through a race, I can’t make it over the big jumps anymore. Probably if I bought all the stuff I would have no problem but I don’t want to spend all that money, I don’t really even have the money. I have 2 indoor tracks I go to and in regards to 2 wd buggy, the one track has a stock and mod crowd but the other, people only show up with 17.5 buggies. It’s not the tracks fault. I know, we’ll solve all the problems right now. From this day forward 2 WD stock will be a 13.5 motor and 4 WD stock will be a 10.5 motor; I think that would straighten things out 👍
@@fuzzfreak1967 the change that every stocker needs every option parts under the sun is the drivers themself that need to take that step and say enough lets just race kits with minor or regulated upgrades to lower costs. another aspect is the shops that sell kits and parts whant the drivers to buy all the cool parts no matter if it makes the car faster or not but just becaus it gives cash in the shops pocket, i get it its a material sport and people need to make money but if more can afford to race the money is flowing then just a few that can afford and buy avery cool part. as for tracks the rebuild once a month to a huge cost of glue and time for a sealed dirt track thats why carpet and astro in europe gone big is the track dont need as much time and effort to be fixed. look att "robin hood raceway" in UK the track is a farm patch that got some earth mounds and bomb holes dresed with a layer of astro and the pipeing just need to be rerouted to get another layout, no watering or glue or running dust blowers. if track owners whant to save money it can be done, the talk about astro and carpet is no real off road is bull crap as glued dirt also is synthetic material we all race on synthetic materials in 1:10 offroad...
Great content, as always! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
I got into 1/5 dirt oval racing and it blows my mind that the stock class literally only has a (stock) engine. It's not for the budget folks like me, really
Great video. Hopefully this video pushes more people to mod classes!
At my local carpet track (1/10 scale) the 21.5 buggy class is meant for new/intermediate drivers… but all the guys that have been racing for years and cant podium in 17.5 just move down to 21.5 😆
Totally agree. I started racing on road club level asphalt racing earlier this year. I run both 21 SPEC and MOD. SPEC is riddled with expenses and politics. My experience has been that you learn a lot more in MOD. Good content Mr Roach. Love the vids.
another one…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
great video and appreciate your informative insight as always. your channel never disappoints when pertaining to the racing aspect of RC. where it seems a lot of other channels are veering towards the bashing or some kind of endorsement grab…you have kept it consistent for the racers. 🤙🏼
I started racing 1/8 off-road since about a year ago now at our club track, about 20-30 guys over 10 races and managed to get 3rd in ebuggy championship. Next week will be my first time travelling to race (Fall Brawl).
Signed up for Sportsman because it's my first event away from home. Really looking forward to it.
That Top Gear bit was fantastic! 😂
imagine if nitro started to become super practical
When you get good at it. Stripping rebuilding and clutches is the hobby
Agree with all your points, started with TT02 for a month then Tried stock TC for 1 week as a beginner, wasn’t my cup of tea with the wallet wars involved, changed to mod ever since and never looked back.
Great video your views are on point my man!
This was a really good breakdown.
Sadly, most of the RC hobby stores now don't sell nitro RC nitro anymore. ☹️
I really liked the explanation video. And I agree with the sentiment of you have won some race time events in sportsman. Move up to Intermediate
At the last statewide race I attended a driver who was clearly intermediate sandbagged into sportsman and won every heat and main by multiple laps. Quite disheartening, especially when you realized he was the track owner.
Stuff like this is what keeps me from wanting to invest my vacation time and money into travel racing.
Hello, I would just like to share my thoughts and experiences with the topic’s covered in this video. In regards to the 1/8 scale stuff first. The first time I ever went to a race where they offered intermediate and expert classes was 2018. It was totally new to me and right away I interpreted it as sponsored or unsponsored. I thought, well sponsored is probably pro and unsponsored is intermediate. Now I was unsponsored so I signed up for intermediate. When the race started I was surprised to see that pretty much everyone was in the pro class and hardly anyone was in the intermediate class. Now a days it’s a lot different between the classes. Just recently I had someone telling me that they were done with the pro class because everyone in the class was out for the win and didn’t care about good driving behavior and will drive over anyone to win so they were going back to the intermediate class. I only race the intermediate class so I don’t really know what the pro class is like.
As for the 1/10 scale stock or mod discussion, years ago hardly anyone bothered with the stock classes, in fact at the one indoor track I use to go to, the 17.5 turnout was so low that the owner one day came out and said that he wasn’t even going to offer it anymore and that was the end of it. I like mod really, it’s the better one I think, just because of the power always being there. One thing I couldn’t stand about stock was the power fade throughout a race, all of the sudden you can’t make it over a jump towards the end of a race; that sucked I thought. Maybe it’s different now, I don’t know, maybe the motors are stronger now 🤷♂️ Now a days it seems like stock is it though which surprises me and saddens me at the same time
as i see it stock is out of hand in terms of what i see on YT from A-main and other chanals that promoting stock, its alot of parts titanium screws turnbuckles and slipper eliminators carbon A-arms and gearboxes and lots of other parts to the point its almost nothing that is out of the kit box.
in the end its a huge extra cost to be one of "the fast" guys in stock it seems.
well to be fair drivers like Ryan harris doing good in stock eaven if his cars appere to not be littered with option parts i know he got some expensive parts like the R1 works gearbox for his AE b7 and carbon A-arms, might be eaven more parts he dont anounce.
where i live we only race mod in 1:10 buggy so its like Roach says that its a kit and some miner upgrades and the motor gives plenty of power, no need to go bananas on the bank account just to get a good car built buy every avalable option part.
@ hey, you hit it right on the button, that’s just it, you got to buy all the good stuff to be good. Me I just slapped a stock motor into my kit only car using regular sized LIPO’s and halfway through a race, I can’t make it over the big jumps anymore. Probably if I bought all the stuff I would have no problem but I don’t want to spend all that money, I don’t really even have the money. I have 2 indoor tracks I go to and in regards to 2 wd buggy, the one track has a stock and mod crowd but the other, people only show up with 17.5 buggies. It’s not the tracks fault. I know, we’ll solve all the problems right now. From this day forward 2 WD stock will be a 13.5 motor and 4 WD stock will be a 10.5 motor; I think that would straighten things out 👍
@@fuzzfreak1967 the change that every stocker needs every option parts under the sun is the drivers themself that need to take that step and say enough lets just race kits with minor or regulated upgrades to lower costs.
another aspect is the shops that sell kits and parts whant the drivers to buy all the cool parts no matter if it makes the car faster or not but just becaus it gives cash in the shops pocket, i get it its a material sport and people need to make money but if more can afford to race the money is flowing then just a few that can afford and buy avery cool part.
as for tracks the rebuild once a month to a huge cost of glue and time for a sealed dirt track thats why carpet and astro in europe gone big is the track dont need as much time and effort to be fixed.
look att "robin hood raceway" in UK the track is a farm patch that got some earth mounds and bomb holes dresed with a layer of astro and the pipeing just need to be rerouted to get another layout, no watering or glue or running dust blowers.
if track owners whant to save money it can be done, the talk about astro and carpet is no real off road is bull crap as glued dirt also is synthetic material we all race on synthetic materials in 1:10 offroad...
Great content, as always! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
I uh. Don't know
3:00 that kick was kinda painful to watch
would do the same if the driver is death reving his engine...
I got into 1/5 dirt oval racing and it blows my mind that the stock class literally only has a (stock) engine. It's not for the budget folks like me, really