Ceramic bearings were soon on the market. Hit a tube too hard and break a front hub so tracks said it was ok to run aluminum hubs. A common problem was blowing plastic caps off the shocks so you had to buy aluminum ones. Others were doing some tricks to the motors. Some guys started soaking their tires in Liquid Wrench to soften them up, causing the tires to not last as long but have tons of traction.
The class was called Stock Slash but we all know a stock slash tends to roll over and its tires are hard as a hockey puck. The Slash brought a surge of new racers to the track. I have seen this happen in off road RC racing. Before I talk about No Prep RC Drag racing lets backup a few years for a brief history lesson. The Slash is cheap and almost indestructible which allows a much more user friendly platform to race on. Just like the “rebirth” of off-road racing followed by dirt oval racing the common denominator was one thing…Traxxas Slash.
RC Drag Racing has been around for decades but it was cost prohibitive with custom carbon chassis running 1.6 second passes and parts you could never find. Next, manufacturers started making more realistic bodies to fit these cars and I started getting more inquiries for lower turn motors and an ESC that could handle them.
Lately, with the explosion of RC Drag Racing I have been using the word a lot when talking to racers and others in the industry alike.Ībout 3 years ago I started to read where racers were taking a Slash and narrowing up front using Bandit arms and putting short course slicks on the rear and finding a parking lot they could measure out 132 feet and run a race. You often hear the word used when talking about the use of our planet or a business. It is a noun by definition that says “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level”.
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