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Radio Control Car Racing at Bashley (SHMCC)     Wednesday night racing is at Bashley. This is an outdoor tarmac track constructed in 2001. We race 17.5t Brushless Touring Cars. Corally HMX (2014) Julian with his Schumacher Vibe & Saleen.   Schumacher Vibe

Since 2025, Jules and I have been racing Tamiya M-class mini touring cars at Bransgore on Mondays. This is a great little club with an informal and fun attitude to racing. We race on carpet (primafelt) and usually there are 3 rounds and a final, with each heat being 4 or 5 minutes depending on time and how many people turn up.. Tamiya M07 chassis. Slightly modified with upgraded shocks, better servo saver, motor cooling fans and shortie battery holder on my car (on the left) Those tyres need a good clean :-) That's the build up from the tyre additive used for racing on carpet.   Julian helping lay the track out in the hall.    

Trying out a 4 in 1 ESC. FETs look a bit weedy but we'll see how it goes. Also added the camera and vtx.

Racing last night at Bashley the car was still quite unstable. For the last few races I have been changing one setting at a time to pin down which are making improvements. So far I've stiffened the front springs, moved the shock positions on the rear and toed out the steering a little. The car was better but still quite hard to tame the back end.. If you look closely at the tyres you can just about make out that the insides of the tyres are a little duller meaning that the majority of the cars weight has been on the insides even during dynamic handling. This is a big clue to start looking at the camber adjustments. Camber is the angle of the wheel relative to the track looking from the front of the car. 0 degrees means the wheel is dead vertical. -5 degrees means the top of the wheel is angled toward the centreline of the car. A little negative camber can be useful, but evidently I had too much. I rather unscientifically reduced the amount and in the next heat the car was ...