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Tekin Wins 2 Readers’ Choice Awards For Best Motor And ESC

Tekin Wins 2 Readers’ Choice Awards For Best Motor And ESC

RCX is the biggest radio control show in the United States, covering hundreds of thousands of square feet of radio control awesomeness. Hosted by RC Car Action, the event takes place every year in the spring time and is the place to be for new product releases, one on one conversation with the industry’s top […]
Monster Jam!

Monster Jam!

It’s a fact: motorheads, young and old, love monster trucks. What’s not to love? Monster trucks have gobs of horsepower. We’re talking well over 1,000hp. And, these trucks are no ordinary pickups; they crush cars. And while mashing metal might be their hallmark move, today’s monsters can literally fly over the cars without touching them. […]

More Critics Than Racers

More Critics Than Racers

Trends and certain hot topics come and go in this hobby, but a few have withstood that old proverbial test of time. Monster trucks come to mind–always popular no matter what else pops up. Criticism of ROAR (Remotely Operated Auto Racers) is another stalwart of RC. Having been around since the late sixties, 1967 to be exact, […]
Blake Baggett Dominates Daytona to Take His First Win of the Season

Blake Baggett Dominates Daytona to Take His First Win of the Season

The Monster Energy Supercross series’ annual visit to Daytona International Raceway was once again a crowd-pleaser as fans filled the stands to watch the world’s best riders endure a challenging track that required as much stamina as it did skill. The night’s big winners were both Kawasaki-mounted, as Pro Circuit/Kawasaki/Traxxas rider Blake Baggett scored his […]

Short Course Showdown March 25-27 At R/C Excitement

Short Course Showdown March 25-27 At R/C Excitement

Short course trucks have no doubt changed the landscape of RC Racing as we know it and this year we will take our style of SC racing on the road. This past year we held the Short Course Showdown at Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee Wisconsin and it turned out to be the biggest and best […]
RC’s Biggest Trends

RC’s Biggest Trends

  What’s hot and what’s not By Matt Higgins Trends come and go. It’s true in the mainstream world and just as true in RC. Some categories in our hobby have stood the proverbial test of time and transcended the “trend” designation. Two prime examples are monster trucks and 1/8-scale off-road racing. They might rise […]

JConcepts Wins 2011 Presidental Trophy Race

JConcepts Wins 2011 Presidental Trophy Race

Leisure Hours held their 17th annual Presidential day race and there was 176 entries for electric on Saturday and 112 entries for 1/8th scale on Sunday. I kept plenty busy racing mod short course, working in the hobby shop, and helping with the announcing. In the 3 qualifiers I finished 2nd, 1st and 2nd qualifying 2nd […]
The Ideal Track

The Ideal Track

RC race tracks come in all shapes and sizes. That said, there has been a shift or evolution in tracks over the years. Tracks continue to get bigger and more complicated. In fact, huge tracks with MX-style jumps are no longer a rarity. Many hobby shops start off with small tracks and continue to look […]

7 Ways to Go Faster (Electric Edition)

7 Ways to Go Faster (Electric Edition)

One of the most popular subjects in RC is speed. Experienced hobbyists love to point how the only two questions the uninitiated have when they see an RC running are: how fast and how much? Going fast isn’t just on the mind of newbs. Truth be told, we’re all interested in going faster. Racers quickly point out that it’s […]
Were The Good Old Days Really All That Good?

Were The Good Old Days Really All That Good?

The quick and dirty answer is–drum roll, please–yes and no. For me, there are a few segments that qualify as the good old days of RC. The first segment is the mid eighties when I discovered hobby-grade RC and almost immediately started racing. These were the good old days because everything was new and exciting. I […]

Let’s Learn From Our Mistakes

Let’s Learn From Our Mistakes

“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” Someone much wiser than I said this phrase many ages ago, and it applies directly to politics, engineering, life in general, and of course, RC.  With participant turn-over rate in RC that’s remarkably high–ie, our hobby has more new RC’ers each year than those who stay […]
How Did We Get Here?

How Did We Get Here?

This blog post is not meant to put the blame on anyone or accuse anyone. I am merely trying to raise “awareness” to what everyone already knows but may be too frustrated to say anything…. For years and years I have listened to racers and ROAR blaming the yearly problems with racing and our industry on […]
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