{"id":811,"date":"2012-11-19T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/?p=811"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:17:28","slug":"racing-redcats-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/racing-redcats-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Redcats, Reloaded…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Recovered: Original post date May 13th 2012]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow, that was fast! Yesterday I attended the second 2012 Amazing RC Store racing and customer appreciation event<\/a>: it felt like I was just there doing donuts in the parking lot<\/a> with my toys a couple of days ago! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This time I spent so much time talking with others I didn’t get any good video, so all I have is a few photos. The weather was perfect this time: over 20 degrees and just slightly overcast – much much warmer than at the last event. The DJ was already set up when I arrived, and they were putting together a mini almost-oval track this time:<\/p>\n

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There were more nitro than electric this time too: especially the Caldera\/Volcano monster trucks:<\/p>\n

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This blue one is the monster truck version of my Caldera SC 10E: well it’s 99% of that version: minus a couple inches of the rear of the body \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I forgot to take a good picture of my cars. In the bottom left you can see the back of my Caldera (yellow buggy with a racing stripe), and to the right (orange flames + blue) is my Associated RC8Te truggy that I was driving around for fun:<\/p>\n

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There were some very interesting races: here’s a brand-new 30cc gas 4wd buggy on the left vs. a 1\/8th nitro buggy on the right. The 30cc put up a good fight: getting an early lead and it was so big it looked hard to pass – but the 1\/8th got it in the end \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Here’s a pair of 1\/10th nitro MT’s ready to go at it:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a pair of similar 1\/10th electrics. This was a fun race because it’s two similar Redcats, both the same scale and both brushless, but Redcat OEMs them from two different<\/a> manufacturers<\/a>. So they’re both carrying the Redcat logos but it’s still a “battle of the brands”\u009d!<\/p>\n

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The racing was all for fun, with smiles all around no matter who won or lost:<\/p>\n

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In the end I got lucky: I won a AmazingRCStore Tshirt in my first race, and managed to win the Grand Prize: a new nitro buggy<\/a>! It was a great looking car, but since I drive so much in the long grass of the local parks, and because I don’t have any of the extra nitro bits you need… ARCS was willing to let me pay the difference to upgrade to a larger brushless model, perfect! I’ll be posting pictures of it soon.<\/p>\n

I had a great time and met even more new people that in the last event: can’t wait until the next one. Thanks to Amazing RC Store for putting on a great show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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