Team Associated TC6.2

Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

The new TC6.2 was announced this week, looks very cool.  There will be one in my RC garage after the beginning of the year.

Here are the specs from the Team Associated website:

Vehicle Specifications
Power Source:         Electric
Terrain:              On-Road
Body Style:           Touring Car
Scale Size:           1:10 Scale
Assembly Level:       Kit*
Length:               Varies
Width:                Varies
Wheelbase:            255mm (10.04in)
Weight:               Varies
Internal Gear Ratio:  2.0:1
Drive: 4WD
* This vehicle comes as a kit and must be fully assembled by the user. Electronics and/or an engine/motor may be required.

Required to Complete
1:10 scale electric motor
1:10 scale electronic speed control
7.4V LiPo, 6.0V LiFe battery
Battery charger (suited for, and particular to, one of the batteries mentioned above)
2-channel surface transmitter, and its batteries
2-channel receiver
Steering servo
1:10 scale (190mm) polycarbonate touring car body
Polycarbonate-specific spray paint for body
1:10 scale rubber or foam touring car tires

Round 1 of the Gen 6 Point series at HobbyTown Gilbert

Saturday, November 9th, 2013

Round 1 of the Gen 6 point series is in the books.  It was a great day of racing, and I had a blast.  It was a great turn-out for round 1, for the Gen-6 Pancar division there was 13 entries and in the Gen-6 Sedan class (my class) there was 17 entries.  I wanted to do a full write up of each qualifier and the mains, but I lost my notebook with all the laps times, etc.  I will try to do better for the next 5 rounds.  My car for this round really started coming around, and I was able to do a personal best with 40 laps in the first qualifier.  I ended up qualifying for the B-Main, which with this series, the winner of the B gets to move into the A-Main.  I ended up finishing in 3rd in the B, which for round 1 has put in 9th in the points.

All setup in the pits, one of these days I need to
get a Canopy/Tent for some shade..

Like I said earlier, I lost my notebook pages with all the qualifiers, laps etc, so for this post I will just post the point standing.

Gen-6 - Cup Series RWD Pan Car
Points after Round 1

Gen-6 - Cup Series AWD Sedan
Points after Round 1

On-Road RC Racing at HobbyTown USA - Gilbert

Saturday, October 2nd, 2013

It has been awhile since I got in any racing.  Had a lot of things going on personally, the biggest being my Mom having to go into Hospice care has been a large part why I have been off the grid for the past month and a half.  With the new Point series coming up, I decided this would be a good opportunity to get back into the game, and get my mind off things.  The first round of the point series is November 9th, and after getting my car ready, I wanted to get in a couple Saturdays of racing to try to get the setup close to race ready.  With the body all trimmed up and painted, I was itching to get it on the track.

Gen 6 - Ford Fusion - By McAllister Racing

There was a good group of that showed up on Saturday to get in some test and tuning.  Of the Gen 6 2WD Class, there was enough that showed up that they needed two heats for them.  For the Gen-6 4WD Class there was 6 of us.

I was not complexity done with my body when I showed up for racing on Saturday, I still had to mount the back spoiler and finish the final race trimming, so I missed the first heat of racing, the leaders were averaging 42-43 laps.  I was also racing in my usual Sportsman Road Course class, and i was able to make both heats for that class.  I forgot to grab the print outs for the heats so I don;t have laps times for everyone except mine, but I was able to grab the A-Mains.

Qualifying Round 1:
Sportsman Road Course:
For round One I had a really good round of 22 laps and took 2nd place in my heat.  I think first place had 23 laps.

Gen 6 Sedan - 4WD:
Missed this round, and the the leaders were about 42-43 laps.

Qualifying Round 2:
Sportsman Road Course:
For this round, I was able to improve my first round and finished with 23 laps and again took 2nd place in my heat.

Gen 6 Sedan - 4WD:
Being this is the first time with this body style on the track, I did not do as well as I thought i would, I think I finished in the low 30's for number of laps in 6th place.  After this round, I wanted to thank Mike S. for helping me with my setup, and getting the body mounted correctly.

Group Pictures:
After the heats and before the Mains started, everyone got together to do a group photo of all the Gen-6 cars and the drivers.

The cars looked good all lines up.

Good group of guys, looking forward to racing with them for the full series.

The Mains:

Sportsman Sedan - Road Course:

Driver  Laps   Time  
Craig    24   4:10.82
Dustin   23   4:02.44
Nathan   23   4:03.55
Frank    23   4:08.64
Rudy     21   4:10.15

Gen-6 Sedan - 4WD:

Driver  Laps   Time  
Mike S.  43   4.05.03
Richard  42   4:03.60
Gary     41   4:00.07
Mike J.  40   4:03.14
Frank    38   4:02.70
Rich     34   4:00.50

Overall it was a good day of testing and tuning.  I was able to walk away with some good ideas for changing my setup for next Saturday.  My goal for next Saturday is to break into the 40's for the Gen-6 class.

HobbyTown, Gilbert - 2013/2014 Stock Car Cup Series

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

Its been over a month since I last raced, and I'm going a little stir crazy.  Looking forward to the new point series that is starting in November at the HobbyTown - Gilbert track.   This will be a 6 race series, starting in November and ending in January 2014, and of the 6 races, there will be 1 throw out for the points.  This series main sponsor is McAllister Racing, and there will be awards and recognition for the top 10 in each class.  Below if the flyer for the series, and it goes over the dates and the classes.  You can also check-out more about the series by going to the following link: Gen 6 Winter Point Series.

Today I purchased my new body for the series, It's a Gen 6 Ford fusion (Part #293), from McAllister racing.  I love the look of the ford bodies, and can't wait to get the body painted.  I will post next when I have the body painted and all mounted up.  I'm not going crazy on the paint scheme, maybe 2 colors, something similar to Ford Penske 22 Car.

Since there are only two Saturday races left before the start of the series, I will be testing the car this Saturday, October 26th.  Hopefully enough of us that will be racing in the series show up for we can make a class of it.

Looks like it will be a good fit on my TC6.1

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

Day two in California, and Dean and myself hit Cal Raceway, located in Orange, CA.  They have been running their Super Saturday Series, so we decided to hit that race.  It was a light crowd this night, because there were several large events going on this weekend.  But there was enough to run two classes.  Intermediate Sedan 17.5, which was a mix from Novice up to Expert.  The second class they ran was VTA, which eventually I plan on getting a car for.

Here is the series flyer:

Once we arrived, we met some of the local racers, and it was a great group of guys.  Once we got setup in the pits, it was time for some practice.  Below is a picture of the track layout.

Since it was a small crowd, and they were only running two classes this night, it was decided to run 3 rounds of qualifying, then the mains.

On to the racing:

Qualifying Round 1:
Intermediate Sedan 17.5:

Qualifying Round 2:
Intermediate Sedan 17.5:

Qualifying Round 3:
Intermediate Sedan 17.5:

A-Main:
Intermediate Sedan 17.5:

This was a great track, and it was a blast racing with this group.  I would love to visit this track again in the future.  Although I did not do as good as I would have liked, the traction was amazing and I was fighting with the roll-center all night, in some of the turns I would roll onto two wheels, and sometimes roll all the way over onto my lid.  Going to be working on this over the next couple of races down at HobbyTown Gilbert, will be playing with the setup.