Well a few of us electric folk headed out to Hardcore Raceway to check out their 1/8th scale track with our 1/10th scale buggies. They wanted to see if any electrics wanted to run there so we rounded up a bunch of us for a "fun" race. Hardcore is the nicest track in Ontario and have a pretty dialed set up going on there. It is a family run track on their numerous acres by their house. Don't let that fool you though as the track is professionally built with drainage, 20 head sprinkler system, killer surface, nice drivers stand etc. etc. It is pretty big for a 10th scale buggy, but we went to try it out regardless. The traction was pretty good and I ended up running Bowties (with very minimal wear on them after a full day running). The 2wd cars had some trouble clearing the BIG 8th scale gaps, but the 4wd cars were surprisingly good out there. I would have qualified 6th or 7th in the 8th scale A Main with my Lazer using a 5.5 Orion Vortex motor (could have used a 4.5 for sure there!) My fastest lap was only 3 seconds behind Nitro Ace Dave Henry's Losi 8ight!. Steve also brought out his eRC8 and qualified in the A Main. He could get about 18 minutes on a pack so we had to do one pit stop for the 30 minute A Main final. Anyways, keeping it short, but here are some pics and vids.
Electric guys invading Hardcore!
Awesome facility!
Getting ready to throw it down
You couldn't pussy over the cross over jump
You REALLY couldn't pussy it over the big gap on the back straight! LOL
Some sweeper action
The ripples were really fun and fine for the smaller cars
Steve's still unpainted eRC8. This thing was uber cool!
Cathing some air after the ripples
PINNING IT down the middle straight
Some Nitro action over the big jumps
A Lap with Steve's eRC8
Some misc. racing action
Again, thanks to everyone at Hardcore for giving us electric guys a chance to race on your awesome track! We all had a great time. Hope we weren't too loud for you. HAHA.
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