Great track and great driving! I used to run 1/12 scale on a carpet indoor track. I can see this being so much fun. Buggies on carpet, no dirt to clean, consistent track, Winn Winn.
It was cool to watch you start warming up and really start cutting the miniscule times off each lap as you went! You see it happen in every type of racing but is very exemplified here and is cool to see!
I know I ran and won state championships when I was racing when I was younger and that guy would eat me alive. Of course my electric buggy back then would only do about a quarter of the speed just as able to do. The technology and batteries and Motors has absolutely skyrocketed
Wow such good driving and seemingly advancing a little more each lap and then going off the track and seemingly getting stuck under the track that was a bummer!!!
I cant tell what's more amazing to me, that track.. or the driver of that orange car! I left the hobby 20+ years ago when i started having babies, and this is unrecognizable from the sport I walked away from! (In a good way...i think?) I just can't help but wonder how your average 10 year old would fare entering a track like this for the first time, especially if they're not racing in an age bracketed series? Im just thinking about how my entire time in the sport I constantly felt like i was outgunned by men that were much older than me, with MUCH larger wallets! And the only way that i could ever stand a chance of being competitive with them is by out-practicing them! I had the luxury of being 10-15 years old, with no job, and no where to be for the duration of summer break other than at the RC track! And luckily for me, the track owner was a REALLY great guy who saw the importance of getting younger guys involved, so he would regularly "comp" track time, or let us trade out a little bit of work around the track/shop (like lifting the giant garbage bags out of the trash barrels in the pits, or sweeping out then drivers stand/paddock) for a track-time punch card that was like a gift card except he would punch out the dollar amounts on the card corresponding to the amount of practice time you wanted on the track. Amd when it was dead (no customers) he would encourage us to jump out there (for free) amd make it look like there was alway action happening whenever a prospective customer would wander in with his son or daughter (our track was connected to a very popular/busy hobby shop) so all day long, crafters, model train builder, kite flters, etc would wander into the RC track, hoping to see a bunch of high flying little cars flying around at breakneck speeds, so anytime the track was empty he would yell to us (the 3 or 4 young guys who were messing around witj their cars on the work benches) and say, "hey guys, a couple of you get your butts out there! People want to hear the whine of electric motors when they walk in the door!" He was a great guy, I'll always remember from childhood. A great male role model for an untold number of at risk 10-15 year old boys! He was an angel sent by god, and he single handedly kept a larger number of us from getting into trouble, or getting killed or locked up from getting involved in drugs or the HUGE gang problem back in the 90's! Miss you Joe! RIP.
This is exactly why I stopped racing in the mid 2000s. The racing scene had become dominated with sponsored pro drivers or factory team drivers. I left when it became a giant showcase for factory tuned equipment. Even the small events would have club pros that would lap the field within a handful of laps. Others, including myself, just started leaving when certain people would show up. Sometimes it hurt a bit because some of those entrance fees were pretty steep.
