Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Fast electric rc car – Rc car tournament or race tips

After you have enough experience competing with many other electric rc car and familiar on driving on circuit, now is the time for you to go further to the next level of electric rc car driving skill. This is because most of electric rc car community always assume that every electric rc car driver who has enter any electric rc car tournament or race is classified into skilled driver group.
Participate in fast electric rc car tournament or competition is very exciting, succeed in the race or tournament you entered is one thing, another thing is you can feel that difference between competing with your friend and competing with your true rivals. From this valuable experience you can learn and improve your driving skill and your electric rc car set to suit the track lay out and surface.
In every electric rc car race, number of participant usually comprise from 10 or more electric rc car racer in a time. As in previous article, If you want familiar with race environment, most effective way is by practice a training with a group of your friend. It’s very important for you to familiar with electric rc car race environment, this is because in actual electric rc car race, the circuit will become narrow because there are many others electric rc car on the and this will let you in difficulty during driving. Experience as such immensely helpful you when you are in actual electric rc car race.

Below are few tips to guide you to enter a tournament.
Race categories.
There are various categories of electric rc car tournament such as:
a) On-road racing.
b) Off-road racing
c) Drag racing.
d) Endurance racing.

Race qualified
Normally racer needed to go through 2 or 3 pre race ( heat ) as for qualification to enter final electric rc car race. Best lap for each racer will be count to determine which group and number of position where to start during final race. For example the best lap driver ( top qualify )will be in group “A” and position no.1, the best 2 until 10 driver also will start in group “A” and position 2 to 10 depend on their best lap, the best 11 until 20 driver will start in group “B”. This such format will count to determine until last qualified driver. For example group “C”,”D” depend on race orginizer.

Starting line until first corner of race.
In the electric rc car race, the result always depend on how you start at starting point until first corner, however fast or good starting wouldn’t give an advantage to you to win the race. Most probability an accidents will occurred during this stage, because all of electric rc cars move very close to each other to lead other rivals. If this to happen you, it will reducing your opportunity to lead your competitor. You are advised very careful at stage.

Dominate inside line of corner.
Trying to dominate a corner because every electric rc car race having many corner route compared straight road. Any racer which possess high efficiency at the corner will have an advantages to win the race.
refer to Cornering technique 2

How to overtake your rivals.
refer to Cornering technique 2