What class of racing will the club be focused on?

There are so many classes and types of radio controlled model cars available that it could be difficult to choose just one. We have tried to make sure that we can cater for many racers new and old who want to race indoors on a weekly basis. With that in mind, we have chosen to focus the clubs activities to on-road racing only with what are probably the most common classes of model RC cars around today. On Friday's we shall be racing 1:10th scale Touring Cars along with 1:12th scale Mardave Cars. On Monday's the club will be running Touring Cars, Tamiya Mini's and Mardave Cars and finally the introduction of 1:10th scale F1 cars. Full details of these classes are listed below with a selection of models that can be used in each.

Close racing guaranteed with RC cars

The great thing about these types of RC model cars is that you can always be assured of some close racing. These classes of RC cars offer the new club racer a wealth of choices in the market place from all the major manufacturers of cars.

Our best advice would be to come along to the club and have a look at what others are racing before buying anything for the first time. We've put together some basic advice on the manufacturers you should be looking at for the classes that our club race.

1:10th scale Touring Cars

This class can use any commercially available chassis from manufacturers such as: Associated, HPI, Schumacher, Tamiya & Xray. Review the construction rules that the club has setup for this class on our club rules page. We allow both the racing bodyshells and GT styled shells to be used.

 

 

1:12th scale Mardave Cars

The Mardave class has been a huge success for our club and we regularly see over 20 cars on a Friday night. We allow any commercially available bodyshell that can fit the Mardave Mini chassis so we always have a wide range of racing from Lotus GT1 shells to Renault Clio's and Ford Escorts. We also allow the Mardave Caterham chassis to race in this class. For 2012 the club is running two classes, the Club Class for out of the box cheap and cheerful racing and the new BRCA Class that follows the BRCA rules that allow more modifications to be made to the cars. View details of the rules that the club has setup for Mardave's on our club rules page.

 

1:10th scale Formula 1

The club is excited to be introducing F1 cars on their Monday night race meetings. From modern to classic and even the 6 wheeler Tyrrell, all F1 cars will be able to race. This class can use any commercially available chassis from the three manufacturers that sell these cars: 3 Racing, HPI & Tamiya. The club has not finalised any construction rules for this class yet.

 

1:10th scale Tamiya Mini

The Tamiya Mini has a huge following and we have decided that now is the time to allow those who wish to race with us with these cars to come along on a Monday evening to race wheel to wheel with either a classic MINI bodyshell, or the new BMW Mini shell. The club has not finalised any construction rules for this class yet.