1998 Question of the Week:
"What is the most unusual track or track feature you've ever seen?"
An ice skating rink as an oval. Very difficult!
-Brekenridge, CO.
A loop, yes, upside down.
i have seen a track made in the backyard over a swimming pool cover.
In my neighborhood, there`s a plant-shop with a very large loading-platform. (it`s lighted during the night-time) It got a 60-degree-sloop that is attached to a wall. That's a real hardcore jump ramp, and if you have enough speed and the correct angle, you are also able to ride on the wall! Very exciting!!! Michael Vienna, Austria, Europe Team Asso rules !
I have raced on a lilo slick floor with rubber tires on a touring car and no track markers just plastic bot dots that were not stuck down.
we used to make our tracks with a water crossing back in the old days! this was in the days of rough riders. anybody know what those were?
I have never heard of this being done, but I would like to see a track where the entire
coarse was done in a half pipe. Not like the half pipes that skateboarders use, it would be
more like if you took a normal Off-road race track and sunk it 2ft down and curved the
walls all around the coarse. In a way that if you set your car/truck on the track and were
to look right behind it, the coarse would look like a "U".
[Associated responds: If you do it right, you'll have banked walls all
around. Great for extra speed in the curves and passing. Very nice idea, and should be
exciting to watch!]
I've had the dubious distinction of racing on 2 really noteworthy tracks over the years -
one was the track built at Las Vegas International Raceway in the Motocross area that we
raced on in March of this year - the race that Mark won both 1/8th scale and gas truck. It
was unusual due to it's size and the distance that the driver was from both the pits and
his car - it was SO far that you had trouble hearing an 1/8th scale buggy!
Another unusual track set up was at the old R & R Hobbies in Quincy, Illinois. Roy had
a flair for the unusual and one year we went up there and found a "wall turn"
where you actually climbed the wall with your car and made a turn to come down. VERY
unusual! Chris Kovachevich
We were doing a hobby show at the local mall to show off our R.C club and the mall had a slick tile floor so all you would do is spin or slide no matter how easy you laid on the throttle, but it was alot of fun. krkroupa
I used to race at a track that had a large flat bank in one corner. It was 6 foot high and had a net at the top! For a carpet track I thought it was kind of strange. (In 4 years racing I have never seen so many people crash!) Minnesota rules! tylar-
I saw a track that was on boards and went out over a lake with no guardrails... I decided not to use it.
Probably my backyard track, which winds around a shed and a camper shell and has some strange jumps. One is over a drainage ditch and another one is a kicker, designed for lots of air but its right in front of a turn so it makes you go high instead of far. But I haven't seen that many tracks, so mine isn't all that strange! Alex Peters El Cajon CA
in the swamp
Dude forget dirt! I have raced w/ my friend in South Lake Tahoe in the snow! I was racing my beat up [car] and he had his RC10. It was tight in the snow park w/ the jumps we made. Track was made in NO time at all too. We put spiked tires on and away we went.
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