First crawling comp in over a decade

[xjtorc]

Today, I competed in my first crawler comp since 2010 and man, was it fun and it was tough.

My local crawler group hosted and kept it simple with 2 classes. Stock chassis and LCG chassis. If you were running a RTR truck which comes stock with an LCG chassis, you were given the option to run one class or the other. LCGs were given different, more difficult lines than the stock class.

I ran my Optic in the stock chassis class. There were 50 gates separated out amongst 5 distinct sections of rock.

Scored as such:
+5 points for a cleared gate
-5 points for touching a gate
-10 points for hand of god
-3 points for reverse
+20 points for the bonus gate only if you cleared it clean.
250 points total possible

No winching of recovery gear, no rear steer, and no dig. Balanced playing field.

In the technical sections, the Optic definitely put on a show for the crew who thought it was outgunned on the rocks. I only had one flip over and 2 reverses all day. Hit gates, well…that’s another story. My buggy is just too damn wide. I finished somewhere around middle of the pack because of an abundance of gates I just did not fit through lol. I would have the absolute cleanest approaches and get to the gate and be too wide to fit without putting a tire on the marker. Super frustrating but still a ton of fun was had. The winner of my class was rocking an old SCX10 chassis and AR44 axles. It was definitely a course for drivers. You had to be able to wheel to be competitive.

I was too busy having fun to snap a bunch of pics and I got zero video but that will not happen next time!

 

[ferrebee88]

Heck yeah! I would love to do something like that!

 

[Xraycer]

Very cool!

 

[OnwardGuinevere]

Very cool! That looked like tons of fun!

 

[Guest D]

Very cool

 

[Doom!]

Glad you had a good time. Cool that you found a good bunch to run with.

 

[CertifiedMike]

Looks like a blast!!! You need to talk to someone about the micro gates!

 

[332_RC]

That's awesome! Looks like you had a great time!

 

[majin]

I'm jelly af! in a great way. you need a hat or controller mount, i tape a traxxas mount to my controllers, i make crap videos, but when I'm paying attention to the camera it can make for some much easier filming while driving, looks like an awesome day

 

[Tunedfrog]

Very cool. Nothing like this in my neck of the woods.

 

[xjtorc]

Very cool. Nothing like this in my neck of the woods.

I'm very lucky to have such a great crawling spot 15 minutes from my home! If it weren't for this location, I probably would never have gotten into crawlers.

 

[Tunedfrog]

I'm very lucky to have such a great crawling spot 15 minutes from my home! If it weren't for this location, I probably would never have gotten into crawlers.

We have many thousands of acres right out our front door but closest crawler competitions would be Boise which is 1 1/2 hrs. from here.
I hate traffic and can't handle hot weather.

 

[9x19]

Good times!!

Glad you got to get into the comp!