After much success in the inaugural event, Team Associated has announced they are in for round 2 of the Vintage Championships! The announcement came on Facebook with AE stating the 2nd event will be held, once again, in Las Vegas – September 2-6 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. I didn’t get a chance to …

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Lucky Winners in Las Vegas!

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One of the other long-term RC tracks in SoCal has been the Ventura Road Runners facility in Camarillo, CA. It’s located in a public park/school area and, because of that, has a long history of RC racing events being held there. It hosted the 1999 NORRCA California State Road Course Championships that myself and a …

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In June of 2012, a young lady named Ashley Garcia died in an auto accident. She was the 22-year old daughter of Sean Garcia, better known as Egyptsean Productions, a well-known videographer in the Southern California area. Sean attends quite a few RC events heavily equipped with video cameras to record all the racing action. …

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It’s that time of year again, the time when racers from around the country gather at the beautiful Tamiya track in Southern California to answer one simple question that has been bugging them all year long; Who gets that free trip to Japan? Yes, I said free. This is part of Tamiya America’s Championship Series …

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Driver’s from around the country showed up at Mike’s Hobby Shop to claim top honors at this year’s ROAR Onroad Carpet Nats, located in Carrollton Texas. Big guns like Paul Lemieux, Keven Hebert and Mike Blackstock were just a few of the heavy hitters that wanted to claim the title on the rug. After some …

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The International Indoor Championships, or IIC, is an indoor carpet event that is held once a year under the glimmering lights of Las Vegas. Headed by master-announcer Scotty Ernst, he and his crew lay down a fantastic carpet track in one of the grand ballrooms in the Riviera Hotel and Casino. This gives all the …

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When you talk about 1/5-scale, you think of long-running events like Baja Fest in New York or Dunetoberfest in California. But have you heard of the Power Jam in Monon, Indiana? If you haven’t, you will now! The boys over at Large Scale RC hosted the 2nd Annual Large Scale Power Jam at a little …

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There are many types of RC racing that West Coast Editor, Tony Phalen, and I have participated in, but there was one area where we haven’t competed; rock crawling and trail truck driving. When Axial caught wind that we’d only fooled around with these types of trucks and have never been in a competition, they …

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In June of 2010, Large Scale RC put on a Baja event like no other. Four huge tracks were constructed; a full-blown, slightly technical off-road track and a dirt oval track with a Figure-8 running through the middle. If that wasn’t your fancy, a large ‘beginner/test’ track was built to allow newcomers a chance to …

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