We had a great race outdoors at the Hobbytown North location in Indianapolis last Sunday. The Hoosier RC Racers club put on the event and members got the track set up and taken down. We had a good turnout too. VTA, USGT, Outlaw, and Stock Slash.

$10 a class. That's what I'm talking about. Enough with the $30 to $40 entry fees per class.

Pay $25 for a membership and race all year for free! But wait! There's more! Your $25 membership fee gets you a t shirt as well!

Great group of guys in that area who are really all "about the hobby".

That's what we get for living in the SF bay area

Josh I guess you need to come race a Hobbytown Fresno more often club race $10 for 2 classes Series $10 per class.

What is currently the 25.5 motor "to get" or is it still TSR? Anyone try the new R1 25.5?

I like my Motive motor
Im not one of the Pro guys but every motive motor ive bought has been good .

There is no motor "to get". That is the point of the new motor rules. They are are all so close in performance it doesn't matter. And it won't matter when new ones are released. They will be similar in performance. We have a local racer that regularly podiums with a Novak.


Focus on consistancy over what is the best motor. That will get you a lot closer to the podium than replacing a motor every 6 months.

For me, I've found my R1 V16 to be ever so slightly better than my TSR but it took some effort to find the right gearing and timing to get it where I wanted it.

As has been said, the playing field is very equal in 25.5

Agreed, You cant go wrong with a Motiv

The new Protoform VTA tires seem to have been made for Black Carpet racing .
The pavement VTA racers , need a tire too . Is there a way to make these tires work on pavement? Will whatever corp that bought HPI make the old compound again or will protoform come out with a Pavement compound .

Will there only be one compound be allowed in VTA?

This seems to be the consensus so far. I am still running the old HPI tires, but earlier in this thread some people said the Protoform tires work on pavement after soaking them in Liquid Wrench for a couple of days. To me this seems unacceptable, but of course I will do it as soon as I run out of the HPI tires that I have.

That would be unacceptable to me as well. It just make me race USGT outside instead of VTA
If you soaked the tires in liquid wrench like that I am sure they will be so soft they will wear even more quickly then the HPI tires do outside.
A set of VTA Tires and wheels is almost $50 . Almost Twice the Cost of USGT tires. I can get about 4 race days out of the GTs
We will see what happens before next outdoor season. Outdoor VTA might not be a part of it for Me

Here is a solution for outdoor VTA if you think the new protoform tires are at a disadvantage to the hpi's, make everyone run the new tires outdoor, now everyone is on equal terms. Rather than bash a company that has gone out of their way to help VTA work with what is available and adjust to bring everyone on a equal level.

Thats easy to say F1Larry , I havent seen you at any outdoor asphalt track since maybe Harbor hobbies closed , so maybe it really does not effect you . Im not bashing protoform they only made what people testing the compounds reported. So mabye next season at Timewarp instead of 2-3 of GT and 2 heats of VTA we will just have 4-5 heats of USGT,