SHMCC 1990s Off-Road Track
Back in the 80s and 90s, off-road 1/10th buggy racing was all the rage. At SHMCC the track was off-road then, as the above rare VHS footage shows.
In the late 90s, people wanted the cars to look more like cars, like rally cars. So shorter shocks and wishbones started being fitted to buggies, and a rally car body shell. These handled a whole lot worse off road, so people started racing them on car parks instead. Thus they soon turned into touring cars.
Nowadays touring cars are arguably a bigger racing class than off-road, but many of us hanker for some off-road racing again! Oh how nice it would be to go back ten years to have a go on that astroturf!
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You are not wrong there Simon. The white car in the video is my old Losi Rally Weapon. This was just a modified Street Weapon. The Street Weapon being the touring car must have of it’s day of course! It was very very early days for Touring cars though.