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Oval breakout racing is a unique niche in a small world of rc carpet oval racing. You set a lap time of what ever is a reasonable speed for the track. In my case it’s 5.000 seconds per lap.
The rules are the first car to go fifty laps without going faster than 5.000 seconds stops the clock.
The specifications for the vehicle are basically ANY pan car chassis. Any motor, ESC, body, tires , what ever you want. But you can only go five second per lap. If you go 4.999 seconds the lap is not counted and the next lap will be over ten seconds.
So you can loose a lap without being passed and when you are a lap down going faster will not help.
This sounds so boring on paper. But to watch it is beautiful. I only see the whole crowd stop what they’re doing when a good breakout race is going on. People crowd around the computer. Room goes totally silent and five or six cars orbit at .020 seconds apart. Then at the end it’s the only time everyone applauds.
For beginners like myself it teaches control. Driving with that kind of precision takes a lot of practice.
I’m looking for more information on rules but can’t find much. There really are no rules so cheating is impossible. Any thing you got can run. So big power or fancy shocks and tires don’t help. It’s all driver.
It’s a regular class every other Sunday. I got a 5.001 lap on my first race. Total total luck because I broke out like six times and finished way last. The top five are like .5 between them. And I’m any place from 4.8-6 seconds.
The rules are the first car to go fifty laps without going faster than 5.000 seconds stops the clock.
The specifications for the vehicle are basically ANY pan car chassis. Any motor, ESC, body, tires , what ever you want. But you can only go five second per lap. If you go 4.999 seconds the lap is not counted and the next lap will be over ten seconds.
So you can loose a lap without being passed and when you are a lap down going faster will not help.
This sounds so boring on paper. But to watch it is beautiful. I only see the whole crowd stop what they’re doing when a good breakout race is going on. People crowd around the computer. Room goes totally silent and five or six cars orbit at .020 seconds apart. Then at the end it’s the only time everyone applauds.
For beginners like myself it teaches control. Driving with that kind of precision takes a lot of practice.
I’m looking for more information on rules but can’t find much. There really are no rules so cheating is impossible. Any thing you got can run. So big power or fancy shocks and tires don’t help. It’s all driver.
It’s a regular class every other Sunday. I got a 5.001 lap on my first race. Total total luck because I broke out like six times and finished way last. The top five are like .5 between them. And I’m any place from 4.8-6 seconds.
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