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Post by milecoupe on Feb 9, 2007 23:16:27 GMT -4
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Post by dirtracer40 on Feb 10, 2007 0:24:28 GMT -4
those
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Post by dirtracer40 on Feb 10, 2007 0:24:44 GMT -4
are
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Post by dirtracer40 on Feb 10, 2007 0:25:05 GMT -4
great
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 10, 2007 0:45:53 GMT -4
LMFAO spamer
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Post by dirtracer40 on Feb 10, 2007 1:00:52 GMT -4
what trying to get my ratings up
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 10, 2007 1:29:17 GMT -4
LMFAO thats why theres post band name thred n post car name thred etc lol
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Post by dirtracer40 on Feb 10, 2007 5:36:33 GMT -4
i know i was fooling around
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Post by haloguy14 on Feb 14, 2007 14:02:29 GMT -4
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 14, 2007 18:04:57 GMT -4
kinda pointless
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 25, 2007 11:24:21 GMT -4
youtube.com/watch?v=xzNtw4O2u8gi raced at this track in 04. ran 2wd stock buggy and stock truck as well as mod truck and mod buggy the A main was all factory drivers. people from new york, ohio, michigan, canada, indiana, illinois, pensylvania, the entire midwest. all the best drivers from the area. this is the biggest off road race in the midwest. 2 guys from my area made the A main, and they are factory sponsored drivers. for Losi and Associated, and have motor and battery sponsors i was in the A main for 3 qualifiers. then i got booted out. 2wd stock- qualified 9th finished 9th C main 2wd mod- qualified 1st finished 1st E main stock struck- qualified 5th finished 9th B main mod truck- qualified 6th finished 4th B main considering the year before i was in the F main. big improvement, and sponsorship helps as well, with batteries dude these races are incredible. everyone is in a pack, the whole field seperated by about 2 seconds, from 1st to 10th. the A main qualifier i was in, was filled with factory drivers, with chassis sponsors, motor and battery etc...... full ride drivers basically. i was up in 5th for a while but then i got really nervous and wrecked, so it bumped me into the B main. but the racing is insane, its basically a big ass freight train. everyone single file, nose to tail. seperated by about 2 car lengths maybe. nerve racking. do it for 4 minutes straight, i dont think i blinked the whole race. ive raced against several well known drivers, in the same race. beat them to. ryan cavalieri, i raced him at a race for our summer series, he over qualified me by about 2 seconds. he was pole i was second. this was for a mod truck race, out door offroad. I was right on his ass the whole race then i over shot a corner and flipped over. iver raced with almost all the guys in the A main in those races, and on a regular basis www.crcrc.com/results/03_04/Final%20Results%2001-11-2004.htmwww.crcrc.com/results/03_04/Final%20Results%2001-12-2004.htm
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Post by GatorsFan38 on Feb 25, 2007 11:58:25 GMT -4
how do u see the whole track
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 25, 2007 12:34:45 GMT -4
well the drivers stand is about 15 feet in the air, and about 40 ft long, and its located on the side of the track.
its hard to see the end of the straight away, as the last time i raced there they had a 180 degree turn right there, and your doing anywhere from 35-45 mph. depending on class, so its hard to judge the turn. but yes there is alot of dept perception problems on that track.
that place is huge though. normally most tracks i was racing was about 70% the size of that place. it was only 10 laps we were hitting. in a 4 minute race. big ass track.
on the track i raced at for offroad before we changed to carpet we were hitting 20 laps in 5 minutes. so there is a big difference.
best thing about that place is its blue groove so the car just cruises, you dont have to drive it like a dirt track, its all clay, cars are hooked up, but with a modified you had to be careful with traction.
funny thing is that when i drove rc cars, i was known for dirt tracking my cars on any track,
so while people are smooth and easy in the turns, i was punched and holding it sideways, almost like a drift. my buddies that i race with were at a couple of corners on that track and they said, you could hear my car in the turns carving the turn, scraping the dirt, while everyone else would just coast and there cars were silent in turns. i drove everything on the edge everytime i raced, i broke alot of parts, but i won alot of races. dirt tracks out doors, i would smack the brakes and throw my car into a sideways slide before the turn and drift through it. looked like a sprint car, side ways and throwing a rooster tail out from behind it. worked well with passing people becuse they would be mind boggled, with how i would pass them.
fricken hilarious. funny because everyone i knew had a smooth driving style and here i am with my car in a drift in every turn.
also i could turn my car in the air and land on angle for turns to get set up for them, i snapped alot of ball studs doing it.
basically with offroad jumping is the key to success. if you can set up and preload your car properly and land properly without casing the jump or over jumping it, it would give you a nice boost off the jump and help you, alot of people think the more air the better. not true, sometimes you nail the gas up to the jump and then right before it smack the brakes and then roll over the jump or sometimes you would roll up to the jump and nail the gas. it always depends on the jump. always remember lower is faster. the more time you spend on the ground, you have more potential to go faster
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Post by GatorsFan38 on Feb 25, 2007 12:45:34 GMT -4
how do u turn in the air
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 25, 2007 13:55:24 GMT -4
he he, that takes alot of time to learn.
you have to do a combination of turning just as you leave the jump and you have to pitch the car with your brakes. kind of like an x and y axis, but you also have another axis, and so on there is 8 points of jumping.
2 for height how high up and how far off the lip of the jump
2 for side to side how far to one side and how far to the other
pitch - up and down, front up rear down or rear up front down, etc...
most jumps are around a 30-35 degree angle. you have to pitch the car with the jump
roll- how far your car is on a roll, like a jet- left side up and right down or left down right up or flat
and angle- how crooked your car is in the air.
basically what i did is take the car and turn it in mid air and while doing so i pitched the nose to match the downside of the jump, this gave me my angle and pitch, and judging on the corner ahead, i would move the car to the left of the jump or to the right.
and speed has alot to do with how your car jumps.
suspension travel and bump stops have alot to do with it as well.
so in a perfect world my car would land the downside on a angle with the backside of the jump, and i would be as low to the ground as possible, and have the angle of the car set so i could enter a turn better.
you control pitch by your trigger finger- more gas = higher front end
more brakes = lower front end.
and you can adjust roll in the air by using a little brake and by turning the wheel either way. and your angle off the jump is controlled by how you steer it while launching the car.
it takes alot of time- track time.
you will break parts. but when it works its fast as hell.
its just getting it down and applying it is the difficult part.
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 26, 2007 4:45:06 GMT -4
Dude that tracks amazing.When i'm in your area we are hitting up that track =] just need to get a better dirt car hahaha i have a 20 year old car right now cause i'm running carpet at this time.
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 26, 2007 18:48:48 GMT -4
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 26, 2007 19:03:13 GMT -4
Frig i wish i had a track like that close =[
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 26, 2007 19:05:29 GMT -4
look at the pictures of the track
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 26, 2007 19:07:04 GMT -4
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 26, 2007 19:09:01 GMT -4
God i can't wait to come there
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Post by munsonator08 on Feb 26, 2007 19:30:04 GMT -4
used to race almost every week at R and L. had the best track within about 100-200 miles.
track was bad ass.
the big ass track is in ohio, in columbus. they have a midwest championship race every year there. biggest race around here, each year there is a limit to 250 entries, and they fill up quick
the layout was alot better a few years back, monster air, triples, doubles, table tops, in modified we had a jump where you came up out of a corner, and came down a hill, then ramped into the air, doing around 30 mph, got about 15 feet of air on it and about 25 feet long. it had an option for a table top where you jump on the top for stock then roll off the edge, or modified you could have big balls and clear the whole thing. alot of people broke shock towers and collapsed there shocks. my buddy jumped over another car on it. in mid air for position. it was a fast and the furious style jump, like in #2 where he jumps over the supra. f*ckin bad ass.
i had to rebuild my shocks after every race on that track for modified.
the track we run at that was clay which is now carpet, we were running slicks on it. blue groove. took losi taper pin tires and took a dremel with a sander on it, and ground down the pins on the tires. made em into slicks. then we would take motor cleaner and wipe them down with it, then put on traction compound. you could crank your slipper, and put in a modified, and you could pull a wheelie if you yanked the trigger, did it all the time coming onto the front stretch. people loved it.
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Post by milecoupe on Feb 27, 2007 2:25:10 GMT -4
haha yeah =]
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