Was in my first ever short course event today. What great sport really enjoyed it. Anyway, Used my Traxxas slash as it came out of the box.

Beginning of the day it was handling fine. Well ok, it was handling fine for someone who had never raced off-road before. As the day wore on and the bigger cars had run the track was getting more and more grip. This was causing me to roll the car at a few of the faster corners. I adjusted my driving style which compensated for a lot of this but it would still catch me out if i was not ready for it.

The work around for me was to remove all the stoppers on the rear springs(Sorry not sure of the real name) which dropped the back right down and leave the front raised on a couple of the stoppers. This gave the car a unique look but gave me back the handling.

So first day of short course racing. 3 Qualifying races and two 14 car finals and i finished in 3rd overall for the day.

So overall a great day racing a surprisingly good result. The Traxxas slash 2wd held up well against the competition even with its stock tyres. a great package.