r/c racing

Well i decided to start a blog to write about my hobby which is remote control racing. for my first blog ill just do a short run down on how long i have been racing and what stuff i race.

I got my first r/c car and started racing in oct/nov of 2005. i started with an ofna 9.5 mbx rtr. i liked the car at first but quickly figured out that it was a peice of crap for racing. think i hadthat for 10 weeks. i didnt finish one race i started with that buggy and quickly upgraded to a hyper 7. i was still racign beginer at that time(my home track has beginer, novice, sportman, and expert classes)i never podiumed in the beginner class but i moved up to novice any ways which looking back was a great move. i podiumed a couple races in novice eventully winning one quickly moving up to sportman. i believe in moving up when you can compete in the next level not when you can win the next level. so i didnt stay in novice collecting wins. i moved up when i felt i could run with the faster guys. about april of 2006 the hyper 8 came out and i quickly got one. i went on a nice little streak of 5 podiums in 7 races and was glad i switched cars. my cars were getting better and so was my racing skills. in april i also raced my first big race which was the US gas champs and took 8th in the d-main. my goal in that race was not to get last and i didnt. i wasnt even in the last main so it was a good race to me. after that i didnt race any more big races till oct but i kept on doing local races. i collected a couple podiums in sports man but no wins with my hyper 8 and kept racing it till august. in august i got rid of my hyper 8 and decided to try something other then an ofna buggy. couple of fast guys and guys i look up to at the track had the new xrays so i spent some time talking to them and decided thats the car i want. so i got the new xray xb8 tq. i went on a streak that included 13 podiums in 16 mains. during this streak i raced in my second big race, the ofna off road championships. i qualified 4th in the b-main and finished 2nd. top 2 racers bumped up to the a-main so there i was in the a-main at my second big race. i ended up taking second in the a-main taking home a couple of big trophys. im still running my xray buggy and loving it. im racing locally but visiting more tracks and also racing in the best of the west series. best 5 out of 8 races. after round 1 i was in 15 out of 80 people. we just finished up round 2 this weekend and had over 250 people. not sure where im sitting in points but will know in the next couple of days. ill post the results when i get them.

ok now you know my background ill start posting my current racing results and diffrent racing stuff in my other posts