HPI Challenge Race. Oct. 12, 2008



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You can see Pavlos in the middle of the drivers' stand, in blue and white shirt. Pavlos has a very long history of racing electric 4wd buggies in the 80's and 90's, not to mention that he has won the Championship in '92, if memory serves me well, with a Kyosho Lazer ZXR! Since then, however, he's not driven a lot...
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Spills were inevitable... Tasos, our third driver (above middle) did some marshalling, and so did I... (my witness is the video in the first page!) Tasos is an active racer, currently racing both 1/5 LS on road and 1/10 nitro on road cars. Actually, earlier today he finished 4th in the 1/10 race held in the asphalt track right beside the dirt track... And... he saved the day. It would be really really hard to run so big a race with two drivers only...
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Tasos driving...
After the race he confessed he would drive a lot better using a pistol type transmitter! As if he didn't push us from 4th to 3rd place during his driving stint!!!! (Pavlos took us up from my 5th position, earlier!)
We used my trusty 20-year-old Futaba FF3 (aka T3UCP) complete with PCM receiver and failsafe function, at 40MHZ FM..