Frank's RC/Electronics Hobby

RC Racing down at Hobby Town in Gilbert

Saturday Aug 13, 2011

I got in some practice time with the new truck. It felt really good, so I decided to enter myself into the Novice Class down at Hobby Town. The Truck handled really well, and I learned a valuable lesson about battery life with my racing tonight. I kind of made the mistake of charging my battery yesterday, and left it stored charged so when I started racing tonight I was not at full charge. So next time I will fully charge the batteries just prior to racing, that way I don't run into any more problems.

Overall it was a fun evening, had a good time and also got to watch my friends do some racing from over at Wolfpak Racing blog.

Here are the results of tonight racing for me.

Heat 1: Finished 5th, and ran 27 laps.

Heat 2: Finished 6th, and ran 21 laps.
- For heat 2, my battery died half way
through the race,sigh, lesson learned.

B Main: Finished 4th, and ran 25 laps.
- Another lesson learned, did not realize that my
controller got switched, so when I started the
B Main, my steering was backwards. So I ran
the entire race steering in reverse, sigh, lesson
learned, so embarrassing.

So for my first time out I feel I did pretty good, making the B Main was very cool. They had a A, B and C main this evening. With what I learned tonight, my next session out should be much better. I will try to take more pictures next time, and maybe try to get a video as well.

Catching the RC Racing bug

I have decided to expand my racing hobby to now include RC's. My first venture will be with the HPI Blitz Short-Course Truck. This is a tough little truck, and I feel will be a great RC to get me started in the hobby.

I will be taking my new truck down to Hobby Town in Gilbert today for my first practice session, and if everything goes well might get in some racing as they race every Saturday night down there.

Saturday Night Racing

Saturday May 21, 2011

It was another fun night of racing over at the Wolfpak Garage. Unfortunately, I did not take hardly any pictures so this will be a brief post. For a complete breakdown of the nights racing, head on over the the Wolfpak Blog.

Video Camera for small race cars, very cool!!!!

I saw this on another blog and thought it was cool. Might be an interesting thing to add to a slot car to get a drivers eye view of the action.

Saturday Night Slot Car Racing

Saturday, May 14th 2011

It was another fun evening of slot car racing over at the Wolfpak Garage. This week there was a slight change in the lineup of races, Dean added two 10v beginner classes to the schedule. Dean also let me use his backup controller since his main controller had come back from being repaired. This helped out a lot, and was a big reason for my improved performance in tonights races.

For a complete breakdown of the nights races, you can head over to the Wolfpak Racing blog, below is some images and race results of the evenings races; pictures courtesy of Wolfpak Racing blog, I forgot to take some for myself, sigh :( . Although I was able to get a video made of one of the heat races (thanks Jordan for being the camera man), so enjoy....

Race 1: LMP Challenge (10v)

2nd: Dragi / 1st: Frank / 3rd: Jordan

Race 2: NASCAR ARCA (10v)

2nd: Frank / 1st: Dragi / 3rd: Jordan

Race 3: LMP2

2nd: Dean / 1st: Ed / 3rd: Dragi

Race 4: LMP1

This was a great race, this was the first time that I had broken the 200 lap mark on this track. Dean had let me use his backup controller which helped out a lot, I can't wait until I can afford to purchase my own controller (Donations anyone????).