RC Car Racing Classes - Which One Should You Race? Onroad, Offroad, EP, Nitro? By Invisible Speed 

Thank you! I’m a novice getting back into this hobby since the early 90’s, and this speaks to me at my level. I appreciate these “simple” topic videos as much as the more complicated topics.

If you are thinking of starting rc racing in my opinion do not worry about on road or off road or classes. First thing I recommend is to find out what RC tracks/clubs are near you. Figure out their schedules. Are they seasonal? What days do they run practice? What days do they Race? What do they charge? Google, and Facebook should help you figure all that out. Then go out to one of their practice days. Just by showing up, and showing interest you will probably be offered all the information on every class that they run. I bet you will even get offers to purchase a used setup to run one of the classes they race. Most tracks/clubs are like a family of friends. Finding a fun group to race with is more important than the class. When it comes to off road vs on road the way I describe it is this. "Off road you race the track. On road you race the other drivers." Electric vs Nitro? Well there is no pitting with any electric class I have raced. There is with every Nitro I have raced. So with Nitro you will need a pit man. You will be paired up with someone who will pit for you, and you will pit for them. You become a team, and will end up working with each other before, during, and after each race trying to help each other be faster. To me this alone makes nitro way more fun than electric.

Great job J Our channel is all about getting new blood into the hobby and this is a great video .. keep up the good work

Great videos learned a lot, subbed!!

I race with my son, we do indoor during winter and outdoor technical off-road during summer. Awesome fun and I have learnt so much about setting up the cars and trucks. Electric currently but have started aquiring a couple nitros for the upcoming summer season.

You nailed all the key points of both electric, and nitro for a new guy. 👏 Great video!

After few years "to play" RC, I have decided to start on track (1/8 off-road brushless) and I confirm that it is really cool. More difficult than I think ! In France it is more and more difficult to do nitro. People who lived around track protest on the activity because of the noise.

Loving these videos, new subscriber!

Great Video Mate nice info also

rejoining the hobby after over well over a decade. losi mini t 2.0 brushless on her way. wish they had a mini b 2.0 brushless rtr as a novice. maybe a 1/10 buggy next if i enjoy the losi. great content!

Nice job and good insight Love 1/8 scale off road. Truggies ha

Nitro, endless hasless with plugs, clutch setup etc. Bearings. Its just hell.

I have raced both on and off road electric. I totally prefer on-road 12th scale, better battles, 8 minutes and precision driving is my preference. On good tight carpets tracks in 480 seconds (8 minutes), we were doing 600+ turns per race, love it. I felt I was ON THE LINE on on-road, where off road was way more getting back to the line. After 2 decades of rc car racing. I switched to PC sim racing for many reasons, the switch to 4 minutes races and only 2Q and 1main was 12 minutes of racing a day, when it was 3Q and 1main = 32 minutes a day (plus all the practice packs). With sim racing (not any of the gaysyation grand turismo crap, that is arcade not sim), I averaged 27 races per week for 4 years straight (5600 races and 1600 hours) and the races were about ~17 minutes. Also there is way more depth than rc cars, tire management, fuel management, pit strategy, working with teammates and more, the list goes on and on, and its a hell of a lot lower cost, so way more racing depth than go as fast as you can and be consistent as RC is. Have fun.

I'm all about driving on tracks -- I have a nitro buggy and ebuggy, and other than breaking in an engine, I only drive them on the track cause there's just nowhere near as much substance driving elsewhere. I used to race up until about a year and a half ago when I realized that I had way more fun on practice days than on race day. Easily 10x more driving. Like you've addressed before, race days take too long. I think there's about 2x as many classes as their should be. Maybe 3x. If they cut the classes down to just like 3 classes, the whole race day could be cut in half with longer mains/qualifiers and more focus on driving rather than every last class. Some are redundant and don't bring anything special to the table, such as 1/10 4wd buggy, mini etruggy, 1/8 etruggy, etc.

In my opinion ON and OFF is like sky and Snowboard. Also for me is important to go in a track with other guy. HAVE FUN

Did I miss out on a discount? I went to purchase the video course and noticed the price is up from from a couple of days ago?

The worst thing about racing is the tracks are a hour and a half trip 1 way

Hi I was wondering if you could do a video on how to test you nitro engine for leak and trouble shoot carb problems i can't find any video about this on Rc thanks. This was great I was also unsure about racing thanks for clearing it up for me this is the first video I've seen talking about all the classes I like off road 1/8 nitro myself 👍✌️👌🏎️💯🥂

Electric on road racing I was very budget minded. I did the euro truck class. Not much set up and very affordable

Great video. I havent got into racing yet but I want to. I dont want to be super serious I just want to drive on tracks and have fun. The loganville georgia track is near me and they have a race whatever you got novice class I want to try. I just built a kyosho mp10 tki2 and I have the ignite design tlr 22t nitro conversion I want to drive on a track. I just need someone to pit thats what is stopping me right now. Maybe Ill start with my electric cars since I already have several also. I really am more interested in nitro though.

Sometimes you need to be "serious" and you drive on-road... Sometimes you need to "have fun" and you drive off-road... But always with NITRO... 😁⛽🛢️‼️💯🔥🏁🏎️🤓🇫🇷

I would like to do offroad racing, but i think the only club within 100s of miles is onroad

I forgot to mention, throttle response on nitro is very slow compared to electric, after you get good at electric, nitro for me was a disappointment, including the nitro castor oil mess it makes, have fun.

hey JQ where do i find the instruction manual for the mayako mx8.? i did not recieve one with kit.

I wish they had Nitro Monster Truck races on the scale of IFMAR.

What about short course trucks?

Classes will also vary depending where you live, check to see what’s running local. For me, 1/10 on-road Drifting 1/10 on-road indoors 1/12 on-road Pan car Off-road: 1/10 SCT 4x4 1/8 eTruggy 1/8 eBuggy 1/5 SCT 4x4 Gas 1/5 Buggy 2WD Gas Over the years nitro has become a dead sport. Onroad-nitro died here when the last outdoor onroad track closed down. Nitro off road just became less popular, the 3 tracks I regular still run them - but theirs often not enough turnout so they mix them with the electric class, usually a race day decision spending on turnout. The nitro guys hate it, understandably so, they’re at a disadvantage.

Is there a basher race class

Is it normal that you didn't mention large scale RC?

Why is it calld nitro and not methanol? Nitro content is 16 %,, oil 10 % and methanol 74 %

Did you forget about oval, carpet, dirt, concrete

Bewildered that is the word. Me too…, I just can’t understand why I can’t convince ppl to begin racing with me. It’s like they’re too arrogant to show up at a race scene and look like a looser lol…& they don’t wanna pay money looking like a looser 🤣 It’s like u have to have a sense of knowledge of racing aspect in general to be into it and they just don’t have it. & so they’d rather stick with their backyard MONnster truck ahhyeaahh… lol I shake my damn head. How do we make this movement convincing?? & they don’t even know about breaking-in engines & if I see one more mf with a pull start I f swear… lol…. Just so unbelievable.

Check out my custom Nitro car ,, tell me what you think

All well and good sir but sadly when most, if not all, of the tracks in your area have dried up with the interest in the hobby overall then there’s not much of a choice. The second wave of RC is over. Brushless, lithium batteries, forum/info boards, liveRC all of that didn’t save the hobby it just made it more expensive. In terms of the hobby itself if I could list reasons (at least in US, region 2 if i drill down further) I would say too many classes, club racing shouldn’t take all day, and tire bills. The last two are very key. Why does club racing take all day? everything other family activity on the weekend they can do in a couple hours and then move on to the next thing or go to church. No not here…three heats and a main takes all day. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a connection between unhealthy households and “Fathers” being gone all day “racing toy cars”. yes they may have the kids with them but thinking back all these years much of the time they didn’t. Probably why most of them stopped when they had kids and/or had kids that they couldn’t bail on to go race. You could even attach the notion that many people go to bigger races instead of club races for this very reason to make the time spent pay. Thus clubs die. The world is getting smaller and the evermore easily agitated public love lil more than a case of NIMBY (George Carlin for Not In My Back Yard) which also puts tracks in peril particularly for you Nitro folk who havent run mufflers since Frequency clips and Radio Impound were relevant. When my biggest rolling tool cart got the job holding tires, wheels, foams etc over the car, radio, and tools it was a warning to stop. 10yrs out of racing. My two boys are nearing the age where I could consider showing them this. I did a little bit with some 28 scale cars to run around the basement. That was all well and good even though they eventually broke both radios which cant be fixed. I thought about putting a track in the backyard just to run around for fun and also to show them. perhaps running vintage cars as opposed to current ones. However in terms of racing at a club which are almost nonexistent here and all the expense that would be incurred. I’m sorry but for many like me it’s just not gonna happen the times we live in or not. If there was something like a 24 hour race again I’d consider it but all day for 3heats 1main. No. Best wishes, -U10 (PS- i’ve read in places that you have a bit of a bad reputation. It’s OK I think I could say the same thing about myself at times. However I always had an amount of respect for you because I thought that your engine break-in tutorial really should be included with every nitro RC regardless of brand. I knew what to do but I thought that video was beyond effective for someone who didnt.)

My 9 year old son runs a losi 8ight with a Novarossi Bonito / jp2 set up . He kills it ! Electric just doesn’t interest us at all . Racing without an engine ? No thanky

Nitro vs electric? Why would anyone want to pay more, work harder and go slower?

Nothing sounds like 30 % nitro methane

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Do you need a certain brand of rc car for racing.? Cuz I wanna do off road racing..

Isnt there a difference in the type of people drawn to on-road vs off-road racing? Or is there no clear trend there?