What's Your Favorite Vehicle To Race?

[Jason Sams]

I ask this question because I am always going back and forth between vehicles. Last year I enjoyed racing my Traxxas Slash, Losi 8IGHT and Associated RC8. This year I look forward to racing my SC10 and an electric-converted 1/8-scale buggy. I will happily admit that I have been bitten by short course bug. I can't seem to get enough of the fender banging action.

What's your favorite race ride and why?

[MattHiggins]

For me, it's the Traxxas Slash or just short course truck racing in general. My local track isn't racing the SC10 yet, but I'm sure they will soon.

I also love racing electric 1/8-scale buggy. On our small track, they are dead even with nitro.

[rccardude04]

For me, it's the Traxxas Slash or just short course truck racing in general. My local track isn't racing the SC10 yet, but I'm sure they will soon.

+1

:D

-Eric

[Jason Sams]

Thanks for the input guys. I really enjoy racing my Slash or SC10. Racing short course trucks reminds me of the days when I first started racing stock truck. Back then, everyone ran stock truck and we would get three to four heats of trucks every Saturday night.

[Jim Hustins]

The short course class is a blast. I love both my Slash and my SC10......but the Slash is more for fun and the SC10 is more of a true race truck. Don't get me wrong, my Slash is hooked up and goes really well. It is just that the SC10 goes where you want it to better than the Slash.
I like the fact that a few trucks can get side by side with out the wheels becoming easily tangled together. At my track the Slash/SC10 racing has transformed from a pure bash fest into a real racing class.

[cnroman]

Although I don't race it anymore, my Tamiya FF01.

[WilliamG]

sc10 for me as well.
Had a slash and liked it, built a SC8 electric before there were kits but the SC10 just rocks. The SC8 brushless outperforms it, but somehow I drive the SC10 more

[Sorcerer001]

Chalk another one up for the Short Course class - I currently race a Slash, but plan to pick up an SC10 soon, too. I've raced pretty much every class out there, but the Short Course trucks have been some of the most fun I've had out on the track. I think the "hardcore" racers are finally coming around and aren't talking smack about the class quite as much as they used to. I personally witnessed a few veteran racers get their butts handed to them racing Slash spec - by guys that had only been racing RC for a few months. It's great to know there's somewhere to really prove who's the better driver...
If the SC10 dominates, my Slash will remain in my stable - with a set of sand tires and a bug body mounted up. The thing is just a tank - it may still be the truck to have on rutted-out 1/8th scale tracks, however.

[Lito Reyes]

The other editors already know this about me, but my fave class is 1:5 on-road motorcycles. Obviously, it's not a very popular class, but it is more rewarding that any four-wheeled race class -- on-road or off- -- that I've ever competed in.

If doesn't matter if it's electric, 2-stroke nitro, or 4-stroke nitro, but successfully zipping a bike around -- okay, coaxing a bike around the turns in a competitive setting is more of a full-focus, don't blink, seat-of-the-pants thrill than I really deserve. It's hard enough getting a bike around a track consistently, but try it against the clock and other bikers. Many times, at the end of a particularly tight race, I have to remind myself to breathe. I'm not kidding.

Lito

[MattHiggins]

I do have to admit that I would have bailed on this hobby back around 1997 if I didn't start racing Trinity Street Spec. Best class I ever raced.

[BIGDADDYV]

I dont know if your going to concider this racing, but i hope you do ... I race my scx10 more than any ride in my stable .. Touring cars, Slash, all of it has taken a back seat to this truck .. Weve put together a small band of fellas and have given the rules and cameras to our wives so they dont feel like RC Widows and even let them lay out the course .. Then we compete using all the rules of any normal comp ..

[Budget racer]

I like my slash race it all winter indoors, i like my 1/8 scale buggy too but i miss 1/10 gas truck racing so much. I still have all my stufff and just play on my backyard track with it..:)

[Sorcerer001]

Forgot to mention what would come in a close second (you did just ask for our single favorite) - a few years back several of us would gather at a buddy's house and run Micros. Most of us were seasoned racers, but a few were newer to the RC scene. The track was set up in a 2 car garage, but done right - we used small diameter PVC pipe, elbows, and T's. We'd scrub the floor down a few hours before laying down the pipe to ensure a clean surface (newer house, so the floor was nearly perfect anyway). It took a little while to bring traction up - we'd sauce our tires, and eventually created a defined race line. There were a few nights that we had around 10 guys show. Most were running Micro RS4's with brushed silver can 380's on 6 cells - we'd get a good 30 minutes of run time out of them, and the speed - well, they felt a lot like a mod sedan given the track size and lane width. Throw in some good food, a fridge stocked with all the right beverages... Those were great times. But, as with all good things, it eventually came to an end.
I'm bummed that micro racing hasn't become more established around the US - our "races" were just as intense as anything we'd ever done on the 1/10th and 1/8th scale tracks. I suppose it could be that micros are actually harder to drive with precision than their larger counterparts. I know a few of my friends struggled to get around the track for a while.
I've been kicking around the idea of setting up a track in my garage (two-car, but quite a bit smaller than my buddy's), trying to get a few other friends to do the same, and rotate race nights.

[T3GT]

Short Course is my vote too!!...I LOVE my SC8--and like Jason said earlier, THIS (Scale) is the reason I got into this hobby (way back in the 80's) in the first place...:D

I just wish there were more people around racing them...I'm just itching to have a full class of these realistic racing machines all tearing around the track at the same time!!

[rezenclowd3]

Touring car is the class that motivates me to get up at 4am to drive to the track and be there at 7am, even though racing starts at 10am. This class seems to by dying in America because of its complexity and supposedly high running costs. The complexity thrills me, but of course, as I learn more, the setup skills seem routine. Change roll center, change ackerman, it's all part of a game to beat the guys ahead of you. It's the desire to push my knowledge to the limits and share that information that keeps me coming back. The supposedly high running costs? I spend less running 10th TC on outdoor asphalt than racing 10th Truck, 8th Buggy, 12th pan car and 10th Nitro TC.
10th TC will always have a very special place in my heart, because it motivates me beyond just the race, beyond the track, and beyond my "normal" work routine.