How to Drive an RC Car

Video Transcript

"Robbie for expert village we'll talks about driving. Now most folks get a little bit confused when it comes to driving on an RC track for the first time. They'll see the experienced guys out there and their really moving along pretty fast so they'll get out there and they'll try to drive just as fast and what that does is it forces them to drive beyond their capabilities. What I always try to tell people is the fastest lap that you'll ever run is one were you make the fewest mistakes. If you flip over and you've got to wait for a Marshall, the person out on the track, to come over and flip you over lot of times that's going to cost you anywhere from 5, 10, sometimes up to 20 seconds that's going to be added on to your lap time. So what we always try to do is when your first starting out just go as fast as you can, as fast as your capable of doing it. Stay right in the middle of the lane and just go ahead and complete a lap. The first lap you complete without flipping or hitting a pipe is going to be the fastest lap you ever run. Then progressively work up to getting faster, cutting the corners finding the specific lines. When a faster driver comes by you try to shadow them and pick up his techniques. In general you're going to want to come into a turn slow and out fast that's just racing. If you have a bunch of cars behind you as you come into that corner you don't want to break too hard or you're going to get run over. Not all the drivers on the tracks are experienced so you do hit each other from time to time its, incidental contact actually its part of the fun. If you do have faster cars come up behind you all you really have to do is just hold your line a lot of people will try to get out of the way, move over to the inside, move over to the outside, and that actually creates more problems. The experienced drivers know what they're doing. They see you and they've already picked how there going to get by you and if you make a quick move, jump in front of them, that's typically were their going to hit you. When you start out slow, get a rhythm and just progressively go a little bit faster each and every lap. Try not to make any mistakes. Be smooth, flow, and as consistent as possible and you'll surprise yourself with how fast your actually are. There's a saying in this hobby "slow is fast", so take it easy run good consistent laps and overall you'll do considerably better."