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The Big Squid RC crew has gotten bit by the drag racing bug, with more than a handful of us now owning no prep drag cars. Now for the Team Associated DR10 I will be keeping it stock for a while, or at least until I learn to control it better. Hone my skills with the stock motor before putting [...]
Coming to Hazelwood, Missouri on May 5th is the STL RC Drag Racing Club 1/5 Baja Championships. This spring the STL RC Drag Racing Club will host 1/5th scale drag racers from across the country to see who is the quickest down the scale quarter mile. All the fastest 1/5 Baja racers from around the country will be driving to [...]
RC Street racing is popular all over the country for good reason, people like to get together and see who’s the fastest. In St Louis, the STL Drag Club has been running for several years now, for bragging rights, and to just have a good time. I joined in with the St Louis Drag Racers over the weekend and had [...]
Last weekend I once again got the chance to hang out and run with the STL RC Drag Racers. For 2012 they’ve moved more towards 5th scales, there were HPI 5B’s everywhere. Top speeds among their 5th scale gas burning crowd was in the 70 mph range. The STL RC Drag Racers allow any scale and type of vehicle to run. [...]
Another company showing at the 2012 HobbyTown USA Convention was VP Racing Fuels. VP was showing off their specially blended PowerMaster surface and air nitro blends. They make fuel for nearly every rc application, for all you rc drag guys I did see they make a 50% nitro blend just for you. Click THIS link for more information. Into rc drag [...]
Make sure you check out part 1 here. Even though RC Drag Racing isn’t a huge piece of the pie when it comes participation, it’s still an important part like Cubby mentioned recently. The batteries, the motors, the engines, all this stuff is tested and tuned beyond belief. You think you know someone that can tune a nitro? You haven’t [...]
So this last weekend I attended the IMDRA Midwest Nationals at the Lynwood R/C Dragway. I was looking forward to racing at the event, but due to some conflicting scheduling I was only able to make it out to watch the finals on Sunday. I was bummed that I didn’t get to be [...]
Holeshot RC Drag Racing, along with Big Squid RC and Hobby Town of Orland Park IL. present Street Car Chaos – RC Drag Racing in the Hobby Town parking lot in Orland Park IL. These street car events that Holeshot RC have been putting on are pretty much the events that brought RC Drag Racing to the [...]
I read and watch a ton of stuff on the internets every day. Some of that stuff I end up liking a lot and bookmarking for later. This new weekly feature highlights those links. Build Log: Dumas 19′ Racing Runabout – This will be one to keep an eye on for a while. It’s going to be a [...]
Here is the link for the Hi-Def version of the video I recently uploaded. This is from the first Lynwood Dragway event of the year. It was also the first event shot with the new Hi-Def camcorder! The video is zipped, and around 40 meg. It’s in mp4 format. If you don’t think you can watch [...]
I finally had a few days to put together a full video from the Lynwood Dragway event opener a few months back! This was one of the first videos shot with the new Hi-Def camcorder! I’ll try and have a real hi-def version to download soon, but this one looks pretty darn good! This was an official Midwest RC Drag [...]
Just wanted to post up a few pictures of the winners from the Breakneck Bash at the Lynwood RC Dragway. Anyone who came out to support the RC Drag Racing scene is a winner in my book! Congrats to all the winners! Check out their cars and sweet winners plaques. (Provided by Big Squid RC) [...]
Another great weekend of racing! We had a decent turnout at the Lynwood R/C Dragway this weekend for the Big Squid RC Breakneck Bash. The weather held off, and we didn’t get the 95’s people were talking about, but we did get some 130 degree track temps! Kevin and Jerry did a good job of keeping the [...]
This weekend, August 2nd and 3rd is the Big Squid RC – Break Neck Bash, at the Lynwood Drag Way! Mark your calendars! For all the details and information, check out the official Midwest RC Drag Racing forums Right Here!
Good evening, good morning, hello, hello- welcome to yet another edition of the loathed Cub-Report. So you like to go fast eh? Well, everybody does, that’s why we are in this sport. Word went public this week about this years big high speed run event. Nic Case, current pwn’er of all things high speed, worked with Castle Creations and RC Driver [...]
