1999 Question of the Week:
"Did you see a racer doing something that deserved the Stupid Hall of Fame award? What did he do?"
I once saw a driver watch the wrong truck for half a race, he made fun of the stupid guy stuck in the corner till he found out it was him.
Well My Fiance Started racing a couple of weeks ago and at the end of the race all of the drivers had finished except her. They walked off the stand blocking her view of the track where she ran into a table breaking some bits of her car And Most of those same racers who thought I built her car
Yeah, My self. Twice actually. There was a race when all i had to do was finish the race and I would win because I was that much better than everybody else in that race. I fell back into second place right off the start and forgetting that the race was 4 minutes long, I tried to get the lead back in one jump over the triple. well, I hit a pipe and broke my MX-4 on the first lap, in a race that i could have easily won. And that wasn't the first time I did it. I will keep doing it if I keep forgetting that the races are longer than one lap.
How about walking up to the starting grid placing your car down going up to the driver's
stand and without taking a practice lap....then the announcer says go at the tone and you
pull full throttle and you go backwards. I saw this quite a bit at Hobbywarehouse/hawks
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Smoking while refueling his nitro car. He had two packs of matches laying near his gallon
of fuel
I once saw a racer drive the wrong way (Turn right!) on a small oval carpet track because he was to impatient to let his car be marshaled! You can only imagine the cursing, mayhem on the track, and broken parts that ensued. The worst part was that I had sold the guy one of my carpet cars with one of my trademark Lexan paint jobs and he was pitting with me! I thought we were going to have to fight our way out of there!
I saw a truck come off of a table top and landed on a pit table that runs parallel to the track....
I was having an especially hard time getting my 10l to handle at the local carpet track. The thing either traction rolled or pushed very badly in the turns depending on the tire compound and or traction additive or chassis tweak, etc.. I wound up qualifying second in the B main and resigned myself to a mediocre at best finish. The buzzer blared and off we went. As we came across the finish line and into turn one for the first time, the guy next to me who had started on the pole deliberately swung wide and knocked my car off the track, over the track wall and into a concrete block wall. His comment to me was " I won't have to worry about you now!" The turn marshal dutifully put my car back on the track and I started to race again 2 laps down. The crash had broken the T plate where it mounts to the rear pod causing the pod to shift in the turns. The car was incredibly dialed! By the two minute mark, I had made up the two laps and was now running with the leader, the same idiot that had tried to take me out earlier! As we came out of turn two onto the back strait, he attempted to wreck me again by swinging over into me as I passed him. I nailed the brakes, he swung over in front of me and I hammered him. He wound up on his top in the middle of the back strait. Before the marshal could effectively get to his car, I came around again and spun him like a top! I won the main by 2 laps going away! The only thing louder than the crowd cheering was the laughter of the other drivers as he slunk off the stand and back to the pits. I never saw him again.
Putting airplane fuel in a brand new rc10gt
driving a Japanese r/c cars
The stupidest thing I've seen in a while was the guy who backed up off a wall on a carpet oval during a race. He smacked right into me, which caused a 4 car wipe out, with cars airborne!! It was a cool crash, I admit, but anyone using their reverse during an oval race definitely deserves to get into the Stupid Hall of Fame!!
The hooking up a motor backwards is always a good one. The best I've seen was a few years back a guy got hacked and came full speed down the strait towards oncoming traffic to hit the other guys car, the other guy turned and the one going towards him ran straight into the wall, that's a winner there!
I've seen somebody actually solder the connecters the wrong way and every time he gassed the throttle he went backwards. Scott
i once saw an idiot driving a stadium blitzer with a Pepsi bottle as a shell.
Lets see here, I think I have a couple for this one! First one is: I saw a guy gluing new tires on rims and he end up gluing his thumb to the tire! He ended up peeling a big chunk of skin out of his finger!! Can you say OUCH?!
The second one is: I once saw a guy who was
soldering a battery together, He had not one but two cells backwards! He tried charging it
and fried the battery and his charger! Can we say DUH!!
krkroupa
Well not stupid but rather crazy things. For example once in practice there were about five stadium trucks, three buggies, a monster truck, and a radio shack car. Even though it didn't happened to me I could tell that the majority of the "pack" was trying to land on top of my RC10T3 in hopes of clipping my rear stabilizer just for getting out of trouble using reverse. Even the radio shack car was on my six! Eventually they didn't clip me and wound up damaging their cars in the process.
Hmm, that would be me. I dipped a motor in a plastic bowl filled with lacquer thinner to clean it. Before it was dry I was stupid enough to put a battery to it over the bowl of lacquer thinner. The motor burst into flames and flashed the bowl of thinner. Needless to say I had two foot high flames in my basement. It was pretty messy, I don't know how I got the flames out, I didn't have a fire extinguisher.
During a Saturday night race, (second heat), A guy was having glitching problems with his truck and decided to park it sideways in front of a corner marshal. Only problem with that was it happened to be about 3/4's of the way down a 40' straightaway. End result was, I didn't see him; T-boned him at full throttle; broke his truck practically in half; BUT my "beastly" T3 kept right on cruisin'!!
Hheheh...the stupid person was myself! I was using motor dip (you know, hook the motor to
a 4 cell, dip it while running) but I dropped the motor into the dirt below me. My dad
picked the motor up and sprayed it liberally with motor spray (HIGHLY flammable). He
handed it back to me where I promptly hooked it up my 4 cell to continue with the dip.
Needless to say the motor was still drenched with motor spray and it flamed up! The real
problem was that my dad had sprayed EVERYTHING while cleaning the motor. I flamed up, my
dad flamed up, our table and tool box flamed up! The ground beneath our table flamed up.
It singed all the hair on my legs and burnt my eyebrows! After I put it all out I looked
around to see if anyone had witnessed this. One person did....he quickly pointed out that
the motor had rolled up under the truck and was flaming away like a burnt marshmallow. The
bad thing was that it wasn't my motor...I had borrowed it from a friend. The good thing
was that the motor was fine! I stomped it out...cleaned it (safely this time) put it in
and set TQ and won the main with it. I handed it back to my friend after the races...the
motor USED to be green....now it was brown. Heheheh
Chris McGough "Guffinator"
I thought of some
1. was me I was driving my xx-4 and could easily beat anybody that day because I am the
best in 4wd at our track. But I was running the CVD is the front and the shafts are too
short for the nuts and wheels. I forgot to retighten before the race and as you guess they
came off.
2. Me again TAO-3. My shop set up a parking lot race. I had the manager out there and I
was testing the track. I came around this one corner flying then I got into the sand and
rolled the car (new body) about 10 times then it flipped up into the bushes beside the
curb after it rode the curb for a few feet. He still won't let me forget that.
3. Best crash not to me.. At a carpet track this guy even though in second (down 2 laps)
to my buddy kept hitting him in 12th scale. The next time around My buddy hit him and he
went flying of the track in a total flip. We warned him.
thanks
Komo
I have seen some stupid things, but I wouldn't want to give an example of someone's misfortune, so I will tell you my own bonehead move. I built new diffs for my 1/8th gas offroad car. Well I built them on a Friday night back at the hotel, so when Saturday night came along I could just bolt them in and be done with my car. Well Saturday night rolled around, everything was going as planned, I was TQ in 1/10 & 1/8. Regan took care of my 1/10th trk & I took care off my 1/8th bug. So I cleaned it up put my new diffs in, well I ended up winning the 1/10. I was leading the 1/8th race when I lost the rear diff, so all I had was front wheel drive. Well what I forgot to tell you is that when I was done building my diffs there were some washers that I forgot to but in. This race was the ROAR nats. Richard Saxton
I let a neighbor drive my T3 with one of my "good" hand wound 14 turn modifieds. The neighbor who will not be named, promptly destroyed the tires (M3 Holeshot) by driving them on the street and then put the truck into the wall with a full throttle trigger squeeze. You always know that an R/C vehicle is O.K. when it bounces off the object it hits. My T3 didn't bounce, it crumpled. $60.00 later I learned that beginners need to have a slow vehicle and a W I D E space. The T3 did hold up admirably, especially under earlier abuses.
Kurt Kimmerly (Team XiPP) throttle
It was myself I was practicing one night with my recently bought RC10L3O and I just finished soldering my motor in and I was ready to go. I put the bad on the track (pan car) and I gave her hell suddenly the car shot backwards then I realized that I soldered the wires to the motor backwards (felt stupid and kept it to my self)
Me and this racer went to race on carpet at a makeshift track at a car show in Cleveland. He didn't run all 3 qualifiers and when he finally ran the main, screws were hanging out of the bottom of his Yokomo j-car and tore the duct tape carpet seams every time he crossed them and everyone lost control on the huge sticky bumps.
Just last week .....a "team " driver running their car at FULL speed into a wall!!!! and COMPLETELY DESTROYING their car!!! I think that could deserve the "Stupid hall of fame award"
I was racing my RC 10 Graphite off road car with a seven cell pack at an elementary, avoiding tether ball poles, going up hills, and tearing across the soccer field then down another hill when I took my finger off the steering to itch my nose. The car ran head on into a wall, flipping it, breaking the front fiberglass shock tower and ripping out the right rear shock from the a arm.
I ounce saw a guy pick up a bottle of superglue and thought it was comm drops SSSSMMMMMoookin!!
Once upon a time... I was racing on a small concrete oval using cap tires with stagger. I was cleaning the tires and applying some sort of traction compound when the announcer called my race. I grabbed the tires, threw them on the car, and ran a good race. I even made the 'A'. I got back to the pits and discovered the big tire was on the inside. Go figure.
Im the winner of the Stupid Hall of Fame award. Back in the learning stages of running my RC10GT.I had got to the race all decked out in lots of eye candy on my GT just before the first main I had a "Big EGO" with all the kids around me asking me questions on my ultra fly ride. Then I had a slight blonde moment and forgot to turn on my truck and at the first rip of da cord that little devil got mid-evil on me and took of like a rocket. All them little kids eyes where wide as half dollars as my GT rammed the wall. I felt kinda embarrassed about the deal but played it off as a loose battery wire!! Also I see newbies taking the cheap route and velcroing all there electronics in there cars. Then when the newbies race in the novice class you see free goodies laying on the track for the snatching!
I once saw someone trying to race their TL01 on road touring car at an off road track in the 4wd buggy class
i saw some one go out on the track and deck the marshal in his face because he took too long--the marshal was out cold for 10 min
I once tried cleaning out my motor with motor cleaner right before the race and when I gunned the throttle the motor burst into flames! I quickly extinguished it and went on to win the heat.
I watched a fellow put his axle in backwards. He then actually put his car on the grid and wondered why it wouldn't go. This happened in the Stock class at The Grove in Rock Hill,SC.
I own a RC10B3 and the rear shocks are very sticky, I have tried everything. I can't figure out what it is. What would you suggest I do? [Use the Help Form.]
i once dropped my radio onto the track of speeding touring cars during the race... i broke that and i also broke the out of control nitro RS4
poured 100% nitro methane in his tank, the car started but blew up. The engine blew right off the chassis
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