2012 Electric JBRL Schedule Announced!

The 2012 Electric JBRL schedule was posted on RC Insider last night! While the dates are tentative at this time, as least we know what tracks are on the schedule! I'm glad to see my local track, SDRC Raceway, will be in the series this year! I can finally sleep at home, with only a 15 minute drive to the track :)

 The classes have also changed for next season. The 2 classes I was running last year, Expert Stock Truck and 4wd, have been eliminated due to low entries over the course of the season. Now to decide what classes to run! Since I picked up an SC10 4x4 last month, I am thinking of running that in the Sportsman 4wd SC class, and since I dropped Expert Stock Buggy last season, I'd like to run the Sportsman Stock Buggy class this time around.

In other news, the 2012 ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals will be held 2 years in a row in California, but this time in Southern California at West Coast RC Raceway in La Mirada. The nationals will be structured much like the IFMAR Worlds, taking place over a week and split up into 2 groups of classes, with the buggy and truck classes up first, then the short course and 1/8 electric classes later in the week.

4th Annual Surf City Classic, OCRC Raceway

Placed 2nd in 17.5 Stock 2wd Truck at the 2011 Surf City Classic held at OCRC Raceway! I also placed 4th in 17.5 Stock 2wd Buggy. I was using MurfDogg 17.5 Synergy Motors, 5500mah 65C batteries, and 4mm Turbo Plugs in both my rides :)



17.5 Stock 2wd Truck A Main


17.5 Stock 2wd Buggy A Main

JBRL Round 3, Palm Desert Vids

Expert Stock 4wd, Round 1 Qualifier


Expert Stock Truck, Round 1 Qualifier


Sportsman Stock Buggy, Round 1 Qualifier


Rookie 2wd, B Main


Expert Stock 4wd, A Main


Expert Stock Truck, A Main


Sportsman Stock Truck, A Main


Sportsman Stock Buggy, A Main


This was a fun race at new track, which is what made the race fun. I wish I did better in my mains, but I got the gearing wrong, trying to keep my motors from burning up in the 100F+ heat in the desert, ending up way under-geared compared to everyone else.

The track itself was on the large size and had several blind spots that would mess you up, if you weren't in the right spot. The layout was still fun though, with traction really high, early in the day, but the "glue" that sealed the surface began breaking up by the mains, causing traction to become inconsistent.

By the end of the mains I was ready to head home, take a shower, and sit in some AC and cool off!

JBRL Round 3, Palm Desert RC Raceway *Updated Track Pics*

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The new layout for this weekend's Round 3 of the JBRL is in at Palm Desert RC Raceway! This will be my first trip to this track, so I'm not sure what to expect. But, I have read that when the surface is glued (which it will be for the JBRL), it is similar to Hot Rod Hobbies.

The layout itself looks great! Looks to have a good flow to it, but I won't know for sure until I drive it during practice this Friday :)

Pictures courtesy of Palm Desert RC Raceway.

Opening race night at SDRC!

Some changes were made to the track Tuesday night and it's much more 1/10 friendly now! The turn at the end of the straight is wider, the pipe was moved in some. The pit between the table tops at the end of the straight has been filled in a bit. The 1st jump for the second triple has been cut down. The whoops section after the 3rd triple has been changed to the following: small quad, corner double, roller, single jump, pit filled in so its flat, small corner table top, then back onto the straight. Also, the boxes around the track on Saturday are now on the drivers stand! The view of the track is so much better now!

I took some video of one of the Mod SC and Mod Buggy qualifiers. Note: I will be disabling embedding of all future videos due to a website dedicated to RC videos embedding my videos into their site and not allowing them to link back to the original video. At least my posts will be a ton shorter now though! I guess I'll be posting more photos to my blog :)