Our ultimate offroad sim racing setup.

[bevo]

TI guess it's not the unltimate track around, but it will work of us. This is my first run on a track we just finished building last week. What do you guys think of the track? I started racing these a about a year and a half ago along with mini z, and my sim setup has really started collecting dust. We have a timing system that's the same thing Karts use for their racing. These things are a blast.

I was being really easy on the throttle here. Once we get more use to the layout and sure we will start putting more power down around the track.

 

[opelgt1969]

Nice video, the cars and track looked really small 1/64 scale until the guy went to get his car (unless he's really small too). Add some pictures of the cars.

 

[bevo]

They're 1/8th scale buggys. To give you an idea how big the track is, that middle tall jump is probably around 5 foot tall. The entire track is about 85x85 feet. The way they're geared to race, they probably get up to around 40mph. Faster if your not racing them, and just want to see how fast you can go in a straight line.

Here are the smaller onroad cars we run, they're called mini Z. They run on rechargable AAA batteries, and the track can be setup anywhere and it's made of tiles, so you can do any layout with it you can dream up. They probably get up to around 10 mph or so. That's pretty fast in someones basement, and a blast to run.
This video is actually of the largest layout we've ran on with them. We rented a building for this, and we all put our track together to get a big track to run on.

 

[Caz]

You need to mount a go pro to that thing with a live stream to a monitor.
Looks like a blast

 

[bevo]

You need to mount a go pro to that thing with a live stream to a monitor.
Looks like a blast

I've watched some videos with those on them. They almost make me sick trying ot look at them. these cars have some crazy suspension travel, so the video is super bouncy.

 

[terminator363]

@OP

This would be a hundred times better if each car had a camera and a transmitter mounted inside. You could strap on one of those FPV live camera display goggles and control the cars with pedals and a wheel. It would be the ultimate set up. It would actually be like a simulation.

 

[bevo]

I'll leave the screens for indoors playing sim games. When I go race these I'm outside in the world with people racing. I would hate to hide behind some goggles while racing the RC cars. I'll tell you one awsome part about RC cars, that's alot different then any other hobby I've done. When you go to bigger races, you actually compete against the best in the world. You may not qualify as good as them, and race in their heats, but you may run qualifiers with them, and have a shot at racing them. When I go to a race even if it's just with friends, I get nervous, with my hands sweating, and adrenalin pumping. I just don't get that from sim games anymore. Plus just actually working on them and trying other setups, makes it all just seem more like real racing.

Don't get me wrong I love sim racers, but since I got into these, sim games have taken a big hit in the time i play them. I've said this before, but it amazes me more GTP members are not racing some form of RC cars. If you've never done it, you should hunt down a track, and go check a race out.