TORCH Summer Series
We’re busy prepping hard for the first round of the TORCH Summer Series tomorrow.
The latest TORCH track is awesome, nice clean new astro, flowing layout (not the one above), and plenty of jumps.
We’re taking a full shop down to every round, and the crowds are expected.
I’m running in the 4wd class, and Mark is going crazy and running both 2wd and 4wd.
Here’s the details from Commander Data:
“Sunday 1st May is the first round of the TORCH summer series with a
planned 6 rounds and best 4 of 6 counting. Classes supported at the
Summer Series is 1/10th electric 2WD and 4WD. Schumacher are
sponsoring the event, therefore the summer series will be a control
tyre event, with any Schumacher off road tyre.There will be trophies for both classes, the top 3 of each final to the C final.
The planned meeting format is:
4 rounds of qualifying with 3 finals (best 2 to count) for all. This
will be confirmed at the drivers briefing as may be altered depending
on driver numbers.
Round by round qualifying – best 2 to count.
5 min heats and finals.
Outline timetable for meetings:08:00 – Track opens for practice
08:30 – Booking in opens
09:15 – Booking in closes and track closes for practice
09:15 – Drivers briefing
09: 30 – First qualifying heatIt is planned to finish between 4:00 to 5:00pm depending on the number
of drivers.Booking in on the day but it does speed up the booking in process if
we have your details already in the laptop. So if you have not raced
at TORCH before and you intend racing please send your name, class of
racing, PT number and transmitter frequency to Mike Scott
info@torchracing.org.ukWe have portable toilet facilities on site but no catering so remember
to bring some lunch! Last year, disposable barbeques were popular.Steve Brown was 2010 champion for both 2WD and 4WD, will anyone
challenge him this year?The series dates are as follows:
The dates are:· 1st May
· 29th May
· 26th June
· 24th July
· 28th Aug
· 25th SeptPlease visit the Titchfield section on oople for further information.”
Tresrey Gainabulls, Servo Cranks and Hinge Pins
We’ve just got another shipment of the jolly nice Tresrey stuff.
So Gainabull shells, servo cranks and hinge pins are all now in stock.
I’m not sure the hinge pins are on the site yet, so call or email if you want some!
Click here to go to our Tresrey shop.
It’s All About The Tyres
There’s one thing that brings together pretty much all forms of motorsport: it’s all about the tyres.
If you get the tyres right, you’re most of the way there, if you get them wrong, you’re likely to be floudering at the back.
As we’re concentrating on 10th off-road, outdoors in the summer in the UK is about astro turf.
We seem to have in stock 24 different types of 10th tyre at the moment…
Schumacher
First up there’s Schumacher, the most popular tyre manufacturer in the UK.
On astro turf everyone pretty much uses minispikes, and they are pretty much always yellow.
Apart from if it’s damp, on some tracks, where it’s green (or even the softer new silver compound).
Some tracks are mega grip, and people resort to using the hard blue compound.
Also, there’s minipins, which are sometimes used on astro, but very rarely, and usually only by the ill-informed, or the warriors.
Ballistic Buggy
These are essentially only used when it’s wet. Green spikes usually, pretty soft. Pink spikes are even softer, but wear out ultra quick…
dBoots
The new kids on the block, they are just one compound, ‘A’, which is very similar to Schumacher Yellow. The Multibytes are very suited to astro, and offer more forward traction than Schumacher Mini Spikes, in our opinion.
The TerraBytes are a Minipin equivalent, more suited to carpet.
Fastrax
These guys have had a mini-spike equivalent out for a while, and to be honest, I’ve never seen a pair…
All of the above (apart from Fastrax, at the moment) are for sale in our shop, online, on the phone, by email, etc etc.
Bonkers Rocket
Wowah, I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks!
Why? Well, mainly, rcLazy has taken off like a rocket, our sales of RC stuff is WAY better than we ever imagined. So, I guess we’ve been caught up with life, racing, and selling to get around to posting!
Racing? Yes, we’ve done a bit for sure.
A couple of weeks ago it was Moto Arena at Silverstone on the Saturday. The track was good, but arguably not as good as the previous meeting. There was quite a bit of tarmac, and it seems to be at tricky points, so I couldn’t get a nice flow going.
I was running 2wd, and had installed a nice new speedo, which unfortunately failed during practice, that’ll teach me for not doing a decent shake down before going to a meeting. These things happen, just bad luck. So I put the old Sphere back in again and the car was fine, I just couldn’t drive it very well!
Mark was running 2wd too, and spent most of the day rebuilding his diff.
So not the best days racing, but it was fun, and off we trundled to Stotfold, to a hotel ready for the regional on the Sunday.
We met up with some other TORCH chaps, and found ourselves in Letchworth of the evening for the traditional Pizza Hut amusement. Good crack, and somehow I got a half price pizza.
The Sunday we were up at dawn and sat waiting outside the locked gate for a couple of minutes, first into the field and got a nice trackside position.
We love it at Stotfold, it’s one of the best astro tracks in the UK. 4wd regional, what could be better?
The durango was instantly on it, a few setup changes and all I had to do was drive it. I left it a little late, and rounds 3 and 4 put in a couple of decent runs to put me 6th in the C final. That was a hoot, me and Chris Ely and Darren Boyle battling the whole way, all of us swapping places, and I threw the win away ending up with 3rd.
Mark did something very similar in the B final. The standard was good, only a couple of seconds separated the whole B and C finals in qualifying times. Ace racing!
An ace start to the regional series, great weather, ace track, cars performing perfectly. Brilliant stuff.
Then we had to do a stock take, and boy, we suddenly realised that out shop stock no longer fits in a shoe box. First six months of trading and we turned a small profit, and have a load of stock ready to sell.
Sales doubling month on month for the last few months, it’s a proper business for sure now! It’s gone off like a bonkers rocket! Who says RC is dead?
Top sellers lately have of course been our Lazy Balls. The new Losi 22 kit balls are shockingly bad, and we’ve had enormous amounts of orders for our Losi 22 ball kit.
The Losi kits themselves have sold really well, and now the spares are selling well too as people are figuring out what they need to get it set up well.
Now the summer season has started tyres are selling like mad, and we’re stacked to the ceiling in rubber.
Last weekend we went to TORCH, a quietish meeting, 24 drivers, and mainly 2wd action. Yellows were working excellently, and I got a brilliant setup with the long-chassis Cougar in saddle pack formation. It was really nice to drive, no need to change to a different 2wd.
Not racing this weekend, having a wee break, but the shop will be open as usual, taking orders over the phone, web, in person, facebook, oople, pigeon post and telegram. We’re frankly astonished at the amount of stuff we’re selling, we must be doing something right?
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