1/10 scale Radio Control Car Drifiting - some pics

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Hi there,

I went to a local club with my son a few weeks ago.
His part of a group that run drift events for 1/10 scale RC cars.

They are great fun to watch and the club we went to have never seen RC drifting before, and a few of the members have said they are now considering taking it up.

Here are some of my pics: -





















Hope you like the pics.

Regards

Tim

[vdubbin]

Sweet, any idea what chassis the Beetle is running?

[Evangelion]

Be a bit tame without the huge clouds of tyresmoke shirley?

[DIW35]

If I recall there is some video on Youtube somewhere actaully showing those things doing there stuff.

[Roop]

vdubbin said:

Sweet, any idea what chassis the Beetle is running?

M04 with adjustable top links at a guess.

[vdubbin]

Cool, was thinking maybe the little HPI 4WD chassis, but if it's RWD, then kudos to the driver. Tyres look skinny too!

[Roop]

vdubbin said:

Cool, was thinking maybe the little HPI 4WD chassis, but if it's RWD, then kudos to the driver. Tyres look skinny too!

You could well be right. SWB and RWD doesn't make an ideal r/c drift car. I thought this after I posted. That said, with a fast steering servo (it's a light car, so maybe a 0.06s helicopter tail servo) and a little gyro assistance, it could well be possible...

[mgmrw2003]

Remember doing this weekly, about a decade ago before it became a "cult" event.

Indoors, pollished wooden floor with plenty of dust/grime

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sweeping track, long straights and tight corners

DRIVE

schumacher carbon chassis wonders with vastly overpowered motors and battery set-ups

RESULT

Chaos. Either floated round like a drift god, setting increasingly quick lap times, or it was a sideways nightmare with plenty of steel radiators/fire escapes to pull your suspension apart on.

Drifting back then wasn't an intentional part of it, but it was immense fun and required phenomenal amounts of skill

[Ranger 6]

mgmrw2003 said:

Remember doing this weekly, about a decade ago before it became a "cult" event.

Indoors, pollished wooden floor with plenty of dust/grime

ADD INN

sweeping track, long straights and tight corners....

DRIVE

schumacher....

LOL not a carbon chassis, mine was a Cat.

Memories of Pately Bridge village hall, an extremely shiny polished floor!! Followed by a pint in the Crown and bemoaning the thrashing receieved from an 8 year old..... (local BiB - excellent bloke and his son beat the lot of us!!)

ETA: and found a scan of an old pic

Edited by Ranger 6 on Tuesday 17th May 14:37

[mgmrw2003]

Ranger 6 said:

LOL not a carbon chassis, mine was a Cat.

Memories of Pately Bridge village hall, an extremely shiny polished floor!! Followed by a pint in the Crown and bemoaning the thrashing receieved from an 8 year old..... (local BiB - excellent bloke and his son beat the lot of us!!)

ETA: and found a scan of an old pic

Edited by Ranger 6 on Tuesday 17th May 14:37

Hahaha nice.

I was too young for the beer... But remember guiding the schumacher axis 2 (memory works well ha) around at what seemed like lightning speed, until some 8year old who was sponsored by one of the decent companies, came and wiped the floor with us.

Touring car body-shells, 2800mha batteries, and 18turn motors were standard issue, along with bright orange speed controllers. quick servo' on steering also essential.

As was a back-up selection of suspension parts for WHEN (not if) you took out a radiator/the stage/a fire escape door

[iphonedyou]

Great pics, some very cool shells!

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Ranger 6 said:

LOL not a carbon chassis, mine was a Cat.

Memories of Pately Bridge village hall, an extremely shiny polished floor!! Followed by a pint in the Crown and bemoaning the thrashing receieved from an 8 year old..... (local BiB - excellent bloke and his son beat the lot of us!!)

ETA: and found a scan of an old pic

Edited by Ranger 6 on Tuesday 17th May 14:37

Ahhhhhh the memories ...... my Cat ended up modded to Procat spec, I ran a Cougar in 2wd and an SPC indoors on carpet in the winter "off" season, matched SCEs, Reedy motors, Nosram Speedos and JR Apex radios ....... Happy days!

[Simond S]

D1RC is visiting us at Eastbourne this weekend.

The vid of the koreans doing it properly is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTZKKrI1kQ&fea...

2wd drifting is very hard with rc. I have a solid read axle slippy front diff xpress that is driftable, but cn't imagine how hard it would be with a M04

[mgmrw2003]

Reedy motors...... remember they were all the rage, until someone invented the "Brushless motor" with accompanying speed controller. 200quid price tag was too steep for me at 13 though

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mgmrw2003 said:

Reedy motors...... remember they were all the rage, until someone invented the "Brushless motor" with accompanying speed controller. 200quid price tag was too steep for me at 13 though

Mike Reedy sadly passed away this week. http://www.rc-area.co.uk/blog/2011/05/18/mike-reed...

the guy was a legend.

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Simond S said:

Mike Reedy sadly passed away this week. http://www.rc-area.co.uk/blog/2011/05/18/mike-reed...

the guy was a legend.

Bloody hell, sorry to hear that. Never met him, but remember him being a legend amongst the RC fraternity

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Simond S said:

Mike Reedy sadly passed away this week. http://www.rc-area.co.uk/blog/2011/05/18/mike-reed...

the guy was a legend.

That is very sad to hear