Tamiya TRF201 Track Day at Xtreme RC Oshawa 

Fantastic Glen!!!!!!. I really enjoyed that.. That’s what it’s about having a blast!!!. I close my eyes listening to the noise and I’m back at the Sunday morning club👍👍👍. Excellent

I have said it before my friend. The TRF201 it is by far my favorite RC buggy of all time! Over my RC10's and that is a high bar. Glenn that smile on your face is what it's about. I thought I saw a 14 year old kid for a moment.

The Barkley Bounce (10)

Man that big jump is a real bastard 🤣 I applaud your patience Glenn I woulda been spewing obscenities left & right!

She took a beat’n. Lol. Good times

Still run my 201 (release ver) after all these years as it so strong and durable. Keep up the great work buddy!!!

Getting better, Boss 👍🏻

Oh wow Glenn you are so lucky driving those cars on that track!! Proper Tamiya race cars on a dedicated rc track, albeit a very tough one!! Glenn it's genuinely lovely to see how far you've come with the channel and now new channel during the time i've followed your journey mate!! You must be so happy and content over there in Canada living your dream!! God Bless You always and as ever Thank You for the awesome content my friend!! Wes, Liverpool UK.

You did a great job. The main thing is you enjoyed it. Could have done with a couple off cones to hit 🤣😂👍😃

That buggy on the track looks like super fun . I hope the camera person got to have a go driving

wow what a tricky little circuit, that jump is a real pain as you need big speed to clear it then you left no room for stopping and then you also have to turn at the same time , id say once you have it down pat it would be a fast and fun track then to beat your own lap times would make for more and more disciplined driving but gee i wish we had something like that around my end without also having to drive for hours to a track , thanks again for a great video Glenn and man that TRF201 is just superb. cheers Buddy

Looks a fun day out Glenn nice to see the cars out and you having fun 😎👊👌💪🔥🔥🔥

Perfect timing Glenn, just got home after a big day and thought I’d love to watch some RC driving and ‘BOOM’ a genuine TRF 201!!! Doesn’t get much better than that.

Definitely love running my TRF201. It's an easy buggy to drive, durable and agile on the track. One of the few Tamiyas you can really put it anywhere on track and it will go. Great video Glenn!

Enjoyed that Glenn, thanks for sharing with us 😎👍

I can see both the joy and the fear in your face mate. You were certainly gaining confidence lap by lap! Judging from the black marks on the viewing platform, there have been some devastating accidents in the past!! Cool video man!!

That was cool!!!

thanks for sharing Glenn, looks like a very durable tamiya buggy, id go up on the pinion gear to get the speed needed to clear the jumps better.

Hey Tamiya Legends, your driving reminded me of when I came back to the hobby after 25 years away. I drove as if I had a delayed reaction and everything was not how I planned. There were a few things that helped me. The first is to get a fast steering servo. The faster the better. The second is to get a high frame rate radio system. These two things will will drastically reduce the delay between your hand's steering motion and and the steering movement of the car's wheels. Imagine driving your full-size car with a steering delay... After this I suggest racing as much 21.5 stock-class touring car as possible. VTA tires are weird and the bodies cause traction roll easily. I ran VTA for a few years but I definitely prefer Stock Touring. I hope this helps and all the best to you!

Don't worry about painting the wing, that'll be the first thing to break and you'll have to replace it a lot, that's why most racers leave them clear. It took me a long time to get used to racing on a track again, and to tune the car for it before I was consistent and getting to the speed of the regulars. Unfortunately my local track is clay, which is fine, but very poorly maintained (rough, wet one day, dusty the next) and if you don't drive a Losi car they wouldn't even talk to you. Sold my race buggy. Maybe one day a better track will open. The next closest is an hour away.

Yeah, it was a great video, nice footage! I love watching this one, I also have a 201, but I would love to have that Azarashi body you have, it is so cool! I have never been on a track before at all, so I shouldn't pretend to be smart, but I do think it was underpowered. It looked great in the corners and on the small jumps with that gearing. I would probably invest in a nice sensored brushless setup for it.

Fun track👍👍

Great yr giving yr display queens a decent hoon. Niceone mate. Gauranga

since I've started racing the enjoyment if the hobby has grown immensely. I find racing a lot more fun than just bashing around and the people you get to know are great aswell. love the footage 👌

Alright, so when's my go? You can really tell the difference between a competition and hobby car - super planted, super smooth and it just wants to go faster.

IMHO, a set of low profile tyres, on both front and rear would stop tyre roll and help turn the car a little quicker in the faster corners (as you stated at the start). Also maybe think of a faster turning steering servo. Other than that (and a little more speed), the car looks a hoot to drive man!! Great video as always Glenn! Thumbs bud!!

My first visit to Xtreme R/C was last week and I must say that I really enjoyed it. I ran my stock TB02B Plasma Edge II. Definitely not enough motor for some the jumps. The layout has changed slightly since this footage, adding a cross-over jump that begs for power. I also ran my Associated B5m and a stock 2WD Slash. Great video and good running Glenn!

G'day Glenn that is such a nice track and that 201 is off tap you made it look Ezy mate getting around the technical track TRF makes it Ezy job of it rear suspension a little bit to hard other than that perfection mate 👍

To be honest that TRF201 looked really planted round that track, it seemed to be running really well! Awesome video as always mate, really enjoyed it👍👍

You have to drive it like you are trying to break it to get those lap times lowered.... ;-)

We need one of these in Kitchener......

Had the chance to live threw the 80's seeing the hobby grow as a kid. Started racing RC in the 90's. Spent every weekend at RC off road race way on Eddystone. Terry ran it for years. Wish rent wasn't so expensive in Toronto would love to see more tracks open up.

Hi Glenn- great video as always! - I think you've got 2 things going on, - don't slate your own driving using a vintage car! -and using it on a very technical and slow indoor modern track doubles the problem! Formula 1 cars didn't go from Dirt to Astro to Carpet in the same time frame! -it'd be cool to see you driving a modern buggy to get your confidence back buddy :)

Nice, you always have the 10.5t brushless system to try 😁 I agree, that it’s better to concentrate on one Buggy, to get better results quicker 😎

Nice work Glenn, lovley looking car, if you look on ebay you'll find a 9t motor which has tons of power but you'll need a good esc as its a real Sponge lol 😂👍😎

Looks like good fun! Its almost too small for 1/10 scale I'd say, very tight. Almost better suited for a Mini-B/T type circuit. Fun either way. Thanks for the upload, Glenn.

You're getting more consistent this time goes on in this video.

The "Barclay Bounce" made it through editing!!!😂🤣😂🤣 Anytime my friend? 👌👍🤞

That looked like great fun, I just really enjoy a nice 2wd buggy, there is something very pure about them. I thought you had it at about 8:00 but as you say it just needed a bit more speed to clear that bump if you didn't get a perfect exit from the corner. These tracks are just so alien to me I think you did well anyway.

Hey Glenn, it's not you, it's the track, don't beat yourself or your car up over it, just single that jump and enjoy the rest of the track. Also I could be totally wrong, might just be the way it looks on the video, but something seems a little off on the front geometry like maybe the front hub carriers are switched around just by the angle of the wheels when it's got a lot of steering lock on. Great video mate, I enjoy your channel and your new one

Loved to see it goes round the track. Hope you go back sometime with other tires and gearing, would be cool to see the difference.

Does need just a bit more for that long jump. Great car. Looks to handle superbly!

You are doing good Glenn! Try putting in a motor with a little more punch and going up a couple of teeth on the pinion if you can.

Another great video, nice to see the car in it's intended environment.. kind of. I do like a dirt track. Your driving was much better over the jump this time, you were lining it up much better the majority of times, like you said, just lacking a little punch to clear it properly.

very nice glenn, but may i suggest setting toe in not out on the front, with toe in the wheels will naturally straighten up under acceleration toe out tries to pull them further outwards if you know what i mean......

I love that car, when it comes to racing offroad buggies...i am oldschool, they should race outside on a dirt/clay or gravel track, indoor it sort of makes it look like a locked up animal not giving it's full potential.

Great video Glenn😀👍 One thing that imroved my skills alot was switching to a more high end radio.. I have allways used cheap budget radios and thougt that was good enough, but man i was wrong🤣 One thing that realy suprised me, was that some of my high end servos suddenly performed like they suposed to do.. My cars got much more presice and nice to drive after i got my futaba in house😀👍

You enjoyed that one 😁 I don't know who I felt more sorry for the bottom of the car or the top of the landing ramp, how many times did you bounce it Glenn? 😅 fun little track but, looks more suited to 1/12 or 1/14 scale though. Jack of all trades master of non, still better than being the master of one. That's the full verse that most people don't know.

I think you should go there with all your cars and run the track.

Dirt Wheels on astro / carpet... You need some cut staggers and Schumacher mini spikes

I think I may have said this in the TT-02B running video but… that main straight jump needs to be shortened. The car did perform well considering. Maybe a different gearing will help.

I cut my teeth on a TRF201, Tamiya still makes the Best Shocks IMO

Superb footage. I think you were more comfortable with the 201. Might have just been later in the day, although the trf cars were race cars for a reason.

You kept having to roll back over your car as much as I did on my last video with my ground pounder. Lol

Definitely turned quicker/ better steering angle than your other buggy, just need a little more zip or pinion change like you say Glenn. Still great to watch either way👍. Take a few spur gears and pinions and play around with it, I would probably take a couple of different motors as well 👍.

Hi Glen, I never considered Tamiya cars as race cars but just fun cars. However, your car looked like it did well. I now have 3 Tamiya cars that I might consider taking to the track. I have the rerelease Super Astute with a cabin conversion, a VQS with a carbon conversion and an EVO which came with carbon parts. Those 3 cars might be okay on the track. Hope you had a good time. Thoughts ?

Sounded like your slipper may have been too loose glenn

Is that track standard width for 1/10?, if there even is a standard. It looks like it would be more suited to 1/14 or smaller.

Perhaps a reedy radon 2 17t would help the stock gearing.

Can you still get these? It shows as temporarily out of stock on the tamiyausa website so I signed up for in stock notification. I did contact tamiyausa and they are saying it’s discontinued. I’m so confused. I’d love to get one of these brand new for a build

The problem is not by you, it is by the track. Corner, jump, corner. What is that? Corner, straight, jump, straight, corner is the normal. They split the long straight with the jump in front of you whit a double corner. That make no sense. I think the track is rubbish.