YouTube – Heavy Does Nitro. Today Heavy D made his nitro off-road debut in the Truggy class at the brand new Latrobe Raceway – home of Tassie’s North-West R/C Car Club.  Heavy qualified a stellar 2nd place, and came home 5th after a fine drive in the finals.  Once he…

The second round of this years Interclub series will be hosted by the Sunshine Coast club over the weekend of 16th and 17th of May. The entry form for this event is now available here. For those wanting to stay near the track overnight, the clubs suggestions for accommodation can…

From Targa 2009 – Prologue George Town Targa Tasmania 2009 kicked off today with the event prologue in the northern village of George Town.  We were there to catch the action, and the stunning array of modern, and classic race cars.  The event proper kicks off tomorrow and we’ll be…

Wednesday Night – Mid week Mania at Meakin. Mini, F1, 1/8th Saturday night – Chargers EP offroad Sunday – Bayside EP and GP Onroad Sunday NWRCCC GP Offroad – new track – Heavy’s Nitro Offroad debut. I’m still in Tassie so won’t be at any of the Brissy meets but…

Racing action for this week centres around Logan and Brendale. Friday night Brendale EP and GP (Novice and GT ) and EP could be stock and mod I think (?) Saturday night Logan all the Ep classes and Nitro. Possible impromptu tune and praccy session at Bayside Sunday arvo. Who…

Or maybe even LOL. 😆 😆 😆 See if you can borrow a Associated Short Course Truck (1/8th Nitro) and take it for a flog. If you don’t get a kick out of that you aren’t alive. I don’t mean a race just a flog around a random park (anywhere…

Racing Lines #152 out now.  In this issue: – Review:  Mugen MBX6 including comment & setup by Wayne Walker – Review: Novarossi Plus 4 – Review: Himoto 8th EP buggy – Review: Edam Exer 8th GP On-road – Review: Axial Scorpion ARTR Rock Crawler – Review: LRP X12 Brushless Motor…

This Sunday bright and early I’ll be on a plane to Tassie – going down for the Targa and also to race an Associated Truggy in the NWRCCC race meet. Actually I’ll probably visit with my family down there as well 😆 😆 The email’s and the mobile will be…

Bayside and Chargers will both have night meets this Saturday night 18th April. Racers this week will notice more fantastic progress at Bayside. This week there will be plenty of light in the pits. Floru have been installed in both pit spaces. Looking forward to it.

Tonight I got to thinking back over the time since we first took possession of a Tamiya HotShot back in 1984, and about some of the most influential cars released in the intervening 25 years.  Here’s my top 10 most influential EP cars, 5 each in on-road and off-road: