All over! after four days of prep and racing, it’s done and dusted! The biggest states we’ve had so far with 117 entries. Amazing.
I managed TQ and 1st in Mod Truck, 4th in Mod 2wd, and 4th in Mod 4wd, very happy with my results!
Two weeks till the next race meet, the WAORMA Challenge in Bunbury.
So I’ve started building a new web site dedicated to my previous show and race car, PULSSSAR. It will basically be a content site, with history, build log, multimedia, specifications and more. Stay tuned as I should have it completed in a week or so.
Also, this weekend is the WAORMA Challenge in Bunbury, it’s a 1/10th electric R/C off-road event where the top 20 drivers in the state are invited to race. I’ll be hopefully racing 2wd and 4wd buggies, should be great fun, I’ll have a small write-up afterwards!
Check out the 1/18th scale radio controlled action at the track we built at work!
what a trip! and what a track! it was awesome fun.
I got some snaps here:
http://www.teamadrenaline.net/events/geraldton07/
A bunch of us are heading up to Geraldton, Western Australia to race a 1/10 electronic off-road meet. Should be great fun. It’s roughly 500km’s away from my house, so a 1000km round trip! should take around 5hrs each way. (google maps rocks)
I plan to race 4wd and 2wd buggy, see how we go…. I’ll be running Novak GTB brushless systems in both cars, 5.5R for the 4wd, and 7.5R or 6.5R for the 2wd. The track is apparently really massive (from the pictures I’ve seen)
I’ll TRY not to get to hammered on Saturday night while I’m up there! hah
On Sunday I raced in the annual Ryper Hobbies “540 Classic”, an r/c event where each racer must use the same ’spec’ motor(s).
I won this event last year, and was sceptical of how this year’s event would go.
Having consumed copious amounts of alcohol the night previous, I managed to haul my arse to the track the next morning and race. (with thumping head in tow)
Qualified 2nd fastest, in the finals I placed 4th, 2nd, then 1st. The worst final dropped, and the 1st/2nd was enough for me to win the event, 2nd year in a row.
Luck? perhaps!
Another weekend bites the dust. What a shame weekends just aren’t long enough!
I spent saturday upgrading some Linux servers for a client. It went well. Two machines. From Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 6. The only snag was that one of the servers (intranet server) refused to run the php intranet app after the upgrade. Bogus. ezPublish requires PHP4, Fedora Core 6 is packaged with PHP5. ezPublish refused to work. Two options left, downgrade (reverse) the machine, or remove PHP5 and hack PHP4 onto the box. I think I’ll downgrade it, it’s way easier. Glad I made a backup of the databases before I took the plunge *sigh*
I’m heading back on-site this evening to rectify the situation. *grumble*
Sunday was a bit of a relaxing day. I headed down to Ryper Hobbies to race the XRAY T2 (tourning car) it’s been a while, a long while. I was recently showered with gifts from a sponsor so I figured why not go try the gear out at the track.
I got some of those ‘RP’ tyres made by Take Off. Chen says “mate they are pure race tyres, they wont last long”. He was right, after race 4, they were down to the canvas, I wasn’t happy! *grrrr*
I also played with some new ‘MUCH MORE’ gear. Including the power distribution block, battery heatsink II, car stand, and a few other things. Pretty neat gear. Lets hope the fan’s inside the new heatsink keep working. MUCH MORE fan’s are known to fail easily.
The T2 handled like turd on a stick. The track was a bit slippery due to the dirt all over it, no setup changes I made could make this thing handle nicely. Oh well, soldier on! I managed to TQ and win, although probably due to the other guys having the same kind of problems as me (handling, breakages, etc)
I tried my new Novak 4.5R brushless motor, it’s super fast, too fast, infact it’s silly for the Ryper track, I don’t know why some of the other guys use it there, the 5.5 is plenty. Maybe I’m just a wuss! heh
Tuesday night I might head to PRECC (carpet) and run the 1/12th. it’s fun and fast.
This weekend just passed was the WA on-road State Titles. This year, held at PRECC (carpet track).
Last year I raced 1/10 stock, TQ’d and won the title. This year I gave it up and raced 1/12th instead, something completely different, but totally fun.
1/12th is rather hard to drive, but when you get things going, it’s actually quite awesome, and very fast. With a few minor issues, I managed to TQ and win the title.
Coming up I have the Autumn River Festival which is an off-road race meet run on grass in the middle of a ‘fair’. Lots of fun.