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Club racing for these cars is popular with circuits both indoors and outside allowing all year racing. Heats are for 5 minutes with the winner completing the highest number of laps of the circuit in that time. A good combination of matching battery, electric motor and speed controller is essential. These items have to be purchased individually and as with the kit there is a wide range of specifications and prices although the better driver although not with the fastest car may win! 

Whilst “off road” electric buggies and trucks are available these are often purchased for leisure use by younger drivers or where there is a restricted area for use available. Club racing for these vehicles is rarely available. 

Nitro powered vehicles

Nitro powered vehicles are available as 1/10 scale “on road” four wheel drive touring or saloon cars, 1/10 scale small trucks, either two or four wheel drive, 1/10 and 1/8 scale four wheel drive buggies and four wheel drive “monster” trucks. There are limited racetracks available due to the area size necessary and because these vehicles cannot be used indoors. 

As with electric touring cars these are only suitable for smooth hard surfaces. The 1/10-scale trucks have ground clearance and tyre patterns for grass or semi rough buggies generally were designed for use on grass and have a lower ground clearance than the trucks but this can have the advantage of the lower centre of gravity offering more stability. The “monster trucks” as the name implies, although not necessarily the quickest, offer the best all round use capable of being used on rougher surfaces and for jumps. 

Different sized engines are available to give more or less power. Starting can be either with a pull cord or with increasing popularity by the use of a cordless electric drill or hand held battery powered unit (Rotostart) inserted into the engine. At the same time a glo starter needs attaching to the glo plug to preheat it and is then removed when the engine starts.   

Monster trucks

The “monster trucks” have proved most popular with customers wishing to have the widest choice of after market parts. Such item include alloy replacements parts for original plastic ones, roll cages, over size wheels and tyres, 3 speed forward gear boxes plus single speed reverse and to the extreme of two engines. Customisation can be carried through with a wide choice of bodies mirroring real monster trucks.

Other vehicles

Beyond nitro powered vehicles are larger 1/6-scale buggies and trucks powered by small conventional 2 stroke 26cc petrol engines.

Introduction | Club Racing | Vehicle products |