How to Race RC Cars

Video Transcript

"Robbie for expert village we'll talk some more about racing particularly your first race. Lot of people will come by spectators and they'll watch it and they have RC's and their really really interested in it but for some reason a lot of folks are intimated and they want to come out and try. So let me give you a couple of tips. First off, it's a lot of fun; I mean it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of different reasons beyond just racing, you'll make fast friends there's a lot of really good people that hang out at RC tracks, travel to different tracks all over the country. We've said before. You'll learn a lot real fast about tuning and setup and how to keep your car going. What we suggest is the tracks are usually open just about every day of the week. Come out, run some practice laps acclimate yourself to the track and just get comfortable with running around on it. Then show up on Saturday. What we do here at Radio Control Headquarters is we put a sponsor so someone that shows up for the first time we give them an experienced racer a friendly person that'll tell them how to do it, ok. As far as starting out we have a starting gate that you set the cars up on and the gate drops out from underneath you and you just simply go. We'll run three qualifiers in a main the qualifiers are just preceding the first starting position or just gives everybody an opportunity to race. Typically on a race day we're going to race four times thorough each of those qualifiers. How you qualify, how well you do in your main typically isn't that big of a deal. We call them club races and their for fun. Come out, have a good time, hang around with your friends, do something outdoors, play with your RC car, something that you could just relax have a good time. Everybody that's out on an RC track had their first race. Just get comfortable, relax, enjoy yourself, and you'll get faster as time goes."