Joel Navarro


The 1/8th Wonder is here…in San Diego, Ca

The 1/8th Wonder is here…in San Diego, Ca

It’s always exciting to be able to experience the opening of a new RC track in your area. Off-road tracks have always been scarce in the San Diego area forcing racers to drive north to the LA and OC area. Well, we can put all that behind us because The 1/8th Wonder is here. This […]
Team RCRD B4.1 Longer Aluminum Chassis Conversion

Team RCRD B4.1 Longer Aluminum Chassis Conversion

My local race track, SDRC Raceway in San Diego ( www.sdrcraceway.com ) has been picking up steam and has become a popular testing facility for RC manufacturers to test prototype parts. On a “Wednesday Night Worlds” club racing night, I spotted this sick chassis from Team RCRD for the Associated B4.1. I was limited to […]

Naoto Matsuskura's Modified Rubber Tire Touring Car

IIC 2011 – Inside the A-main Winning Cars

Preparing for a big race like the IIC takes a lot of work and preparation. Top factory racers spend months testing their cars with different set-ups, and every possible hop-up and prototype parts to ultimately culminate into what you see on race day. As a spectator, your are amazed at the blinding speeds and precision […]
Thanks to the IIC crew for putting on such an awesome event! See you next year!

IIC 2011 – Race Results

This years IIC is in the books and it was a great one at that. The A-mains were full of action and super close finishes for the top spot right up to the last lap! Here are all the A-main winners photos and sheets of the final standings. A-main videos coming soon so you can […]

IIC 2011 – Photo Gallery

IIC 2011 – Photo Gallery

It has been hectic at the IIC with preparations by the racers and the IIC crew. The lower mains are run first, with all the A-mains ran at the end of the race program. Here are some photos that catch the flavor of what IIC participants are experiencing. I’ll have full A-main results, winners photos, winner’s […]
IIC 2011 – Qualifying Results and Action Photos

IIC 2011 – Qualifying Results and Action Photos

After 4 rounds of qualifying on Thursday and Friday, all the racers are tired and sleep deprived from all the time they spent wrenching on their cars, but at least they know their fate for the mains. The IIC runs their mains on Saturday instead of Sunday so that the racing participants don’t have to […]

You can see the small size of this battery next to an iPhone, running the RC Car Action App of course.

IIC 2011 – CRC new releases

Calandra Racing Concepts – CRC Gen-Xi 1:12th race car kit – #3203 Making a debut here in Las Vegas is the new 1:12th car from CRC, the Gen-Xi (inline). The Gen-Xi keeps all the great features (Encore shock, Pro Strut front end, full carbon components) and performance of the multi-National champion Gen-XL as well as […]
CFX RC Paintworks & Parma/PSE @ The 7th Annual IIC!!

CFX RC Paintworks & Parma/PSE @ The 7th Annual IIC!!

Charlie Barnes is the man behind CFX RC Paintworks and OC Circuit (A popular racing program in the SoCal area now in its 13th year, socal.rcracing.com/ ), and he is here at the IIC representing Parma/PSE ( parmapse.com ) with a booth. He is providing painted bodies for sale, and demo’s on his latest painting techniques. Charlie is truly the […]

1/12th Scale Rev.7

IIC 2011 – Speed Merchant new releases

Speed Merchant            teamspeedmerchant.com  – 1/12th Scale Rev.7 Here’s the latest and greatest out of the SpeedMerchant camp. Introducing the Rev.7. With the changes in Lipo’s, traction compounds, bodies and even carpet construction, we’ve seen an on-going change is set-up philosophies over the past few seasons. After lots of testing starting at the Snowbirds, continuing with the […]
The IIC is here and it is awesome!

International Indoor Championships (IIC)

Hello from Sin City Las Vegas! I’m at the Riviera Hotel & Casino this weekend covering the 7th Annual International Indoor Championships, and what a great event this is! Who says on-road racing is dead? This years IIC event has 404 entries participating (2007 had 450 entries), which is the second biggest turn out they’ve ever […]

Video!! At the races with the TQ Racing SX10 4w!

Video!! At the races with the TQ Racing SX10 4w!

  **Here’s the link.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5XivyYwHKI ** Copy & Paste it into your browser. If you caught my review on the TQ Racing SX10 4w (www.tqracing.net) in the November 2010 issue of RC Car Action, you would have read that I had nothing but positive reviews for this car. Well, it’s been months now since I threw […]
Indoor racing is back in San Diego!

Indoor racing is back in San Diego!

  The racing scene here in SoCal is always plentiful and with a variety of world famous tracks to choose from, you’re guaranteed to get your RC fix. Indoor tracks are always popular, because rain or shine, you will race. In the San Diego area, where I live, there hasn’t been an indoor track for […]
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