Developments and a possible return to mardave racing? - 06/ 10 / 05

Back in August when I was sat on my arse in front of our ridiculously low coffee table building the Xray I came to the decision that I really needed somewhere better to work on the cars, somewhere with a proper height table I could sit at, somewhere with some decent lighting and more importantly somewhere I could leave a car in pieces without mum flipping out and threatening to hoover pieces up! ;-) So, after filling my car up to the roof twice with old junk, painting, and building a table I now have ‘Ross’ RC Room!’

Having everything in one place and with a decent bench to work on in a well lit area has made it much easier to work on the car, charge batteries etc which is just as well given the amount of meetings we'll be doing this winter! Also whilst sorting through all the older RC equipment I came across the first RC car I ever raced, my old ministock, sat in a box feeling sorry for itself which got me all nostalgic...

Look Look! Somewhere to work!

Remembering how much fun the old mardave racing was I looked into what cars are used now, where they are raced, what national competitions there are etc etc. After a couple hours browsing forums and websites I'd worked out all the different classes and formulas.

The wooden spoon! Forever to remind me I was the rc club bowling loser in 1996!		Ross becomes worried about apparent stalker with camera...

I found that national meetings are run for all the short oval formulas you find in real life, such as hotrods, f2's, bangers etc and that the basic cars used are the same in all formulas and the same as are now used by my first RC club at Curledge street school. So, thinking that soudns like it could be fun, next year we'll be going for a little retro action as well as the touring car racing. Curledge street and the 1/12th oval Hotrod Nationals here we come! ;-)

See you next time!

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