VTA and TCS: Realism Talk

It's hard to beat seeing professionals drive the cars of our dreams.
Red RC brought us another display of what the classic RC10 cars can do. This time it was during the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals:



Cudos to to Jason Rouna for making this category seen by so many.


More on Kinwald's RC10 Classic(Worlds) and his B5 cars here. The things just look awesome. But this whole "throw back" is getting silly with all the B5RM's out there. We understand, AE needs to pay the bills until the mm or a conversion comes out.
My guess is RTRs are all rm and the conversion is available after that. Time will tell.

Seeing Kinwald today is not unlike Walter Rohl and his cars these days




I do hope that these rereleases turn into something to run at bigger events. For the debate about 17.5 motors, just put them in cars designed before 2000 or with drivers born after 2000 and call it good.


VTA or Vintage Trans Am is a class of touring car racing that has become hugely popular, though it did just get dropped from  Electric Onroad carpet nats. Bummer. I think the category is fantastic.

It uses slower motors, spec tires and requires no huge financial resources to get started. Most VTA vets will persuade the noobs to run those shaft drive TC3's they've got lying around.

I'm not a huge fan of calling any brushless motors "stock" because they are all fast. But there is a world out there still using brushed, closed end ball silver cans for competition. No, I'm not talking about box stock Slash classes, I'm talking about the big Mr. T.

Tamiya to most.

The Tamiya TCS is one of my favorite categories of on road. Sure they govern the rules with an iron fist, but you know if someone cheats in TCS, they are border line geniuses that came up with the loop holes.

In TCS, GT Spec is my favorite. Grab a shaft drive TT-02 or similar car and use the supplied 540 motor , ESC and kit tires and you're racing for under $150!!!!!!!!!!! Crazy in today's high cost world.


Tamiya will have you rolling for $155 with esc, body, motor and tires

Fred Medel talks about the awesome world of TCS.





Others taking the Tamiya kits to new "endurance" events

And how it looks at the track:



Amazing.

There are a million ways to determin who is fastest, but we have chosen to drive little cars while standing on the drivers stand and shouting "GO!"

The debates about cheater motors, chassis design and company politics will always be around. I just like that we have so many choices to how we go about deciding what cars, motors and tracks we want to use. The only thing that needs to be remembered is to keep race entries up, the companies will follow. 

Thanks!

-Tommy