What's cool is during this time most people would only see photos of the race coverage in magazines not videos of the race. I use to get every RC Car Action from the late 80's to the early 2000's and had never seen footage of a world level event. I always imagined the cars to be so dialed, the footage shows them bouncing around much more than I thought they would. Super cool!
I know exactly what you mean. I was born in 1988 so I was reading car action around 95'-98' the Kinwald days and sexton ;) Great stuff. awesome to see what it was actually like.
I had this race on VHS once in much higher quality than this video.. Damm shame I don't have the tape anymore. I know the guy that does but lost contact
...anybody else dislike the newstyle "on road" offroad tracks? the kind that makes that horrible chassis slap sound when ya land a jump! makes me laugh at the comments about having to clean the dirt off the cars ....uhm..."off road" ring any bells? race on road12 L's if you dont like dirt!
Thank you for posting this,brings back a lot of memories,Me and my buddy were invited to the 1988 Reedy 4WD Race of Champions,In Calf. It was a 5 day event and I got to race in the Quafs with Jol Johnson,Moore,C Reed, and Masami Hirosaka who was the Champ at that time,My Heart was pounding the whole 4 mins, After all that made the D main and finshed 3rd. Best part of the whole event was being able to hang and talk with all the big name Drivers, and pit right next to Jam'em J Hulse and his Dad-( Jay drove the corvette R/C car in the movie The Dead Pool with Clint Eastward and body remember? lol Anyway Thx again for posting this R/C Race All the best to you Lou
No, not at all... The combination of the more bumpy track and older cars make it seem rougher than it is, but a modern car could of course handle this track...we have way better tech, designed for the fact that we have much bigger jumps now, that could also handle a rougher track.
Seems like a lot of tracks try to be perfect these day but not challenging, this track seems like it would have pushed the driver and the car’s ability.
I don't think masamis cat looked any better than the rest of the field, looks like it struggled in the bumps especially in the first heat, he was fortunate to win it all. I thought Kyle reed had the best looking car
Some of these guys would hand build high capacity packs with two 7.2 sources in parallel matching each cell and moving the electronics to the center so they could also balance the chassis with cells. They would take apart their motors and experiment with balancing the rotor, different wind combinations on the armature, type of wire, thickness of wire, number of winds, and dyno those motors for the most speed and torque with the least draw from the pack. I still have a motor with layers of the armature removed to make it spin up faster but it reduces torque.
Turn Marshall turned Kyle Reeds car around at 2:04 unfortunately and cost him 2nd, maybe a run for 1st as he was running fastest laps on the last leg of the race.
I cant believe they raced 5minutes with them old cadnica batteries! What were those? 1200mah?? With modified brushed motors for 5min wow... and track bumpy as hek with the rc10's short front a arms... really wow... now i have seen pics of masami's rc10 fiber upper and lower deck with much longer a arms nothing like the rc10 we know... maybe an after market kit? ... i truely wonder how would our updated buggies ride on such a track, sure racing now on clay but much longer a arms and minimal offset wheels and unlimited shock setups. Masami's buggy had no camber position choices or anything for that matter! See its pics on rc10.com
By this time, you would run the yellow/black 1800mAh SCE "Extra" cells, in the modified classes, and the red/black 1400mAh SCR "Fast Charge" in stock. The 1200's had been outdated a few years. If you search, there is someone now making a kit to build Masami's '91 Stealth car that they designed from studying images. Arms, carbon fiber decks, steering, an all. Also, from what I've read, the current RC10B4 and maybe B5 are based off the '91 Stealth.
Cool video. Only sad thing about racing back then was 80% car and maybe 20% driver at the top level. These days it's much, much more about the driver than the car.
Maybe a 300 dollars rtr like a losi 22. These cars can still be almost competitive today with a bigger open track cause they a little heavier. Biggest advancements been in lipo's and brushless motors
I like the fact it's soft dirt but the lack of jumps would make this boring in my opinion. No choice of doubling or tripling, no rhythm anywhere, just bouncing along. I'm not a fan of AstroTurf but today's tracks are way better in my opinion.
What's cool is during this time most people would only see photos of the race coverage in magazines not videos of the race. I use to get every RC Car Action from the late 80's to the early 2000's and had never seen footage of a world level event. I always imagined the cars to be so dialed, the footage shows them bouncing around much more than I thought they would. Super cool!
+7wt I was thinking the exact same things! It's really cool to see
I know exactly what you mean. I was born in 1988 so I was reading car action around 95'-98' the Kinwald days and sexton ;) Great stuff. awesome to see what it was actually like.
I had this race on VHS once in much higher quality than this video.. Damm shame I don't have the tape anymore. I know the guy that does but lost contact
Thanks for this video. I'm French, 51 years old:-) and my last RC race was with a 2wd Losi XX CR !
Back when off-road racing was off-road
wow, i love how they left the track dusty, unlike tracks these days. it makes a really cool roost when they get on the throttle
We raced on grass/dirt, not raced since 92, miss those days
seems like a real offroad track....
imagine racing without fast radios and electronics,high speed servos, lipo batteries and buushless motors,these are the true masters of racing :O
R/C Racing roots !!! love the ole time races !!
Masami Hirosaka, most sucessful player in the rc history!
Surf's up section...The best thing that ever happened at a worlds.
...anybody else dislike the newstyle "on road" offroad tracks? the kind that makes that horrible chassis slap sound when ya land a jump! makes me laugh at the comments about having to clean the dirt off the cars ....uhm..."off road" ring any bells? race on road12 L's if you dont like dirt!
I, we HATE the new tracks! These new tracks force us to spend more money to compete instead of using talent!
Thank you for posting this,brings back a lot of memories,Me and my buddy were invited to the 1988 Reedy 4WD Race of Champions,In Calf. It was a 5 day event and I got to race in the Quafs with Jol Johnson,Moore,C Reed, and Masami Hirosaka who was the Champ at that time,My Heart was pounding the whole 4 mins, After all that made the D main and finshed 3rd. Best part of the whole event was being able to hang and talk with all the big name Drivers, and pit right next to Jam'em J Hulse and his Dad-( Jay drove the corvette R/C car in the movie The Dead Pool with Clint Eastward and body remember? lol
Anyway Thx again for posting this R/C Race
All the best to you
Lou
Woot for the 90s... hot pink and giant antennas.
NICE track! WISH WE HAD THESE TRACKS TODAY instead of the brown asphalt and jumps!
중고딩 시절 마사미는 내 영웅이었지요ㅎㅎ
언제봐도 두근두근 한 이프마 오프로드~~최고!! (^-^)b
that looks like such a fun track :D
THIS is why old Skool racers are the best. They can deal with track conditions that millennials can’t.
I know others have talked about this but the older tracks like this I feel are more difficult for drivers than these new sugar tracks.
Great racing
So many people there
'Some exciteing stuff folks' The cars: 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭
aquellos maravillosos años
I feel like tracks of the past like these would eat up your current 1/10 scale buggy and spit it out. These were real offroad tracks.
No, not at all...
The combination of the more bumpy track and older cars make it seem rougher than it is, but a modern car could of course handle this track...we have way better tech, designed for the fact that we have much bigger jumps now, that could also handle a rougher track.
Misami looks like a cool dude
World Championship in Sterling Heights, huh? damn, didn't know we had any hobby shops in the area lol
at 5:19 who is it that slams into the pipe?
Seems like a lot of tracks try to be perfect these day but not challenging, this track seems like it would have pushed the driver and the car’s ability.
the good old 1991 :D
I don't think masamis cat looked any better than the rest of the field, looks like it struggled in the bumps especially in the first heat, he was fortunate to win it all. I thought Kyle reed had the best looking car
FINALLY real off road on dirt! not this bluegroove shit surface the offroad rc cars use nowadays.! this is how it looked when i raced these things!.
just read in a forum this stealth prototype went for 2300 on ebay wonder why they never brought them to production
@ 2:04 Id have been SO pissed
i'm surprised the batteries lasted that long.
Some of these guys would hand build high capacity packs with two 7.2 sources in parallel matching each cell and moving the electronics to the center so they could also balance the chassis with cells. They would take apart their motors and experiment with balancing the rotor, different wind combinations on the armature, type of wire, thickness of wire, number of winds, and dyno those motors for the most speed and torque with the least draw from the pack. I still have a motor with layers of the armature removed to make it spin up faster but it reduces torque.
Turn Marshall turned Kyle Reeds car around at 2:04 unfortunately and cost him 2nd, maybe a run for 1st as he was running fastest laps on the last leg of the race.
I cant believe they raced 5minutes with them old cadnica batteries! What were those? 1200mah?? With modified brushed motors for 5min wow... and track bumpy as hek with the rc10's short front a arms... really wow... now i have seen pics of masami's rc10 fiber upper and lower deck with much longer a arms nothing like the rc10 we know... maybe an after market kit? ... i truely wonder how would our updated buggies ride on such a track, sure racing now on clay but much longer a arms and minimal offset wheels and unlimited shock setups. Masami's buggy had no camber position choices or anything for that matter! See its pics on rc10.com
By this time, you would run the yellow/black 1800mAh SCE "Extra" cells, in the modified classes, and the red/black 1400mAh SCR "Fast Charge" in stock. The 1200's had been outdated a few years.
If you search, there is someone now making a kit to build Masami's '91 Stealth car that they designed from studying images. Arms, carbon fiber decks, steering, an all.
Also, from what I've read, the current RC10B4 and maybe B5 are based off the '91 Stealth.
rustyATV What year did Sanyo introduce the SCRC cells, 92 I think?
I hope Kyle Reed never watches this video! LMFAO!
lol Vehlow thought he won.
Brushed motors :D
No because he clumsily turned around the car @ 2:04 that should've taken the lead. And judging by all the calls of "bullshit", they agree.
NO!
Cool video. Only sad thing about racing back then was 80% car and maybe 20% driver at the top level. These days it's much, much more about the driver than the car.
You have it backward, back then a good driver could take a good STOCK motor and win because they could drive!
A $150 rtr from 2018 could win the the 1991 IFMAR Worlds easily..
Maybe a 300 dollars rtr like a losi 22. These cars can still be almost competitive today with a bigger open track cause they a little heavier. Biggest advancements been in lipo's and brushless motors
I like the fact it's soft dirt but the lack of jumps would make this boring in my opinion. No choice of doubling or tripling, no rhythm anywhere, just bouncing along. I'm not a fan of AstroTurf but today's tracks are way better in my opinion.
modern turf tracks don't require much driving skill, they are now a handful of simple 180' turns and nothing but a jumping contest.