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In a new press release from Grand Motorsports: The Protoform 1111 Funny Car It’s BACK! This classic Fuel Coupe body comes with a separate rear spoiler. Body dimension are: 5.75 inches wide in the front to 6.65 in the rear, 21 inches long. Made from .030″ lexan. Fits most 12 to 14 inch wheelbase funny car drag chassis, [...]
I just got a press release from Grand Motorsports about their new Wheelie Bar! Here is the press release: Grand Motorsports Advanced Wheelie Bar System Grand Motorsports announces the release of their new shock-loaded wheelie bar system. Designed to allow optimum weight transfer under acceleration, the new GMS wheelie bar system allows you to tune and control your launch [...]
We never like to see this stuff happen. At the last big Midwest RC Drag Racing event, Shredder-X had a glitch/run-away and his R/C Motorcycle took off at the end of the track. Sadly, it was perfectly timed with a oncoming car. 🙁 Younger viewers may want to look away.
While doing our server and software updates, it looks like we broke are event manager! While we work on getting it fixed and up and running, I wanted to remind everyone about some upcoming events! If RC Drag Racing is your thing, then the Lynwood RC Drag Way is where you want to be this weekend! It’s the [...]
I would like to welcome a new rc video site HobbyZip.com to the world of RC! It looks like they are off to a good start with some cool videos up there! As we create more new videos, we will be uploading them to this site as well for viewing. We will also be testing out their embedded [...]
What a weekend! This was the Season Opener of the Midwest RC Drag Racing Season! With some luck on my side, I won the Extreme Dragster class! It wasn’t really the way I wanted to win, but I’ll take what I can get. The amazing news is that ticket on the right side [...]
The Midwest RC Drag Racing Points Series is going to be started right around the corner. Consider this your first warning to dust off those vehicles from the winter storage and start charging those batteries! The first event of the season will be held at the Underground RC Indoor track! For more details, or if [...]
We just received this press release from Grand Motorsports: Grand Motorsports DragSpec Car kits now come standard with ball bearings, four 1/8 by 5/16² flanged for the front wheels and two 1/4 by 3/8² flanged for the rear axle. No need to upgrade later, get on track right from the start! DragSPEC Pro Stock Kit – 2100 [...]
I would like to congratulate Nic Case for officially getting into the World Record books as having the fastest RC car! The official record is 134.4mph, though he has a 160 mph run! WOW. Having gone pretty fast myself, though it’s no where near his speeds, I can appreciate the skill and difficulties in hitting the kinds [...]
It is finally here! The full 2008 Midwest RC Drag Racing Schedule! Check out the official Midwest RC Drag Racing Forum HERE for all the discussions, videos and pictures! Looks like it is going to be a good year with some great events!
Hello everyone. Hopefully everyones holidays were good, with them (X-Mas-New Years and my B-Day ) over now I’m going to try to write a little…bear with me. Well a few of us have been getting together at Underground the last few weeks on Saturday’s. For those of you who don’t know what The Underground is let me try to describe it [...]
There I was sitting in my man-cave(the basement) staring at my dragster trying to figure out how to get that 1.4 that has eluded me……….the phone rings …….its Brian(Big Squid). We talk for a while and he explained that he needed little help and if I would be interested in contributing a small column on the website that would [...]
Just wanted to make a quick post about the Lynwood pics. For those that didn’t see the post in the forums, I have created a page of pictures I took a week back from the Lynwood Drag Race event! Click the picture to see all the pics! Had a great time! Also check out the [...]
While we are still setting things up, we better test the youtube videos and make sure those are all good and working! This video is from the Minnesota Drag Race event I was at last month where I won the Top Fuel Dragster class! You can read all about it in the Forum HERE. I hope you like the video, feel [...]
