Action from the 45-minute 1/8th scale A-main at the season finale of the 2019 Euro Nitro Series in Ettlingen, Germany. **View complete coverage of this event here: ens.redrc.net/tag/ens-2019-rd...
If you see a slow motion of these cars then you could realize even better that how big those slides are, one can get really nice slowmotion videos out of these cars driving :)
I need to get me one of these 8th scales I run tenth scale carpet oval and road course and we have very fast classes that's stupid fast but these are whole different level big cars going 90 mph
Can anyone tell me why these cars tail slide so much in corners? Other classes like 1/10th electric and 1/8th GT take the turns in a much more fluid (and less spectacular) fahion. Is it because of the different tyres (rubber vs foam)?
One reason is that there is no rear diff. It is a solid spool also in the rear. They are getting the rotation so that the inner rear wheel is lifting a bit. Not necessarily totally in the air but it is still getting lighter. Then the car in the meantime just seem to handle that it slides when rotating. One kind of doesn't need to drive so that they would make it slide (like in karting sometimes you can see that they kind of throw the car in a slide). These cars just start to slide kind of by themselves, more or less. How big the slide is depends on the grip level of the track.
I'm assuming the extra mass causes the cars to slide much easier. As for why they don't try to go slower to maintain grip, I think the engines they use have enough rip to just burn through the corners and still be faster than if they decided to prevent wheelspin.