The crew over at Traxxas have just announced their first true self queen display chassis. For you hardcore drag car lovers, Traxxas is now selling just a bare chassis of their funny car to make it more affordable to have one on display in your house, dorm or office. The chassis is fully assembled, but [...]
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Last weekend I once again got the chance to hang out and run with the STL RC Drag Racers. For 2012 they’ve moved more towards 5th scales, there were HPI 5B’s everywhere. Top speeds among their 5th scale gas burning crowd was in the 70 mph range. The STL RC Drag Racers allow any scale [...]
Over the weekend, our own Adam the Intern was working the Traxxas booth at the NHRA Full Throttle Event in Joliet. He sent over a bunch of pics, looks like it was a pretty big turn out, and Adam was handing out autographs to the ladies. Ashley and John Force are probably trying to figure [...]
Our own Adam the Intern was working at the Traxxas Try-Me booth this weekend over at the NHRA Full Throttle Series in Joliet Illinois. For those of you in the Joliet area this weekend, I’m pretty sure he will be there this Sunday July 1st, 2012 as well, helping people get their RC on, answering [...]
Of course, the biggest thing at the Traxxas booth is their new line of funny cars. The cars and tree light system are on display, along with the 1:1 inspiration that brought these little rockets about. But those aren’t the only new things in the Traxxas booth this year. Traxxas is also showing off a [...]
Saw this pic of the Traxxas Funny Car with a bunch of the drivers for an upcoming race today and thought I’d post it up. The vehicles are shipping soon for those waiting to get some drag racing action in! Visit the Traxxas site for a few more details.
Looks like Traxxas has released a few more details about their DTS-1 Drag Timing System. Dual beam lasers will allow pre-stage and staging, along with two more lasers for the speed trap and finish. It’s interesting that they are using lasers when all the companies that have been making RC timing systems usually do not. [...]
Just a heads up, this weekend, April 30th, 2011 there will be a RC drag event in the parking lot of the Orland Park IL. Hobby Town! Pretty much anything goes at these events! Anything goes, if you think you have a fast vehicle, bring it out. You will most likely see some amazing drag [...]
Holeshot RC Drag Racing, along with Big Squid RC and Hobby Town of Orland Park IL. present Street Car Chaos – RC Drag Racing in the Hobby Town parking lot in Orland Park IL. These street car events that Holeshot RC have been putting on are pretty much the events that brought RC Drag Racing [...]
Since we have been covering more RC drag racing lately, we have been getting questions about how to get started in the drag racing scene. Many questions are “where did you get the King Squid?” and “how do I get one?” Well, those are the questions I am going to answer here. It’s going to [...]