17.11.2025 5 comments
Dear VRC members,
As you have probably noticed I have been off-line for the past 10-12 days. I was hampered by some very serious problems with my W10 workstation which caused me to do a complete rebuild of my PC. New motherboard and i9 processor and expended memory the 64GB, new power supply, new graphics Nvidia RTX 5080, new ssd hard drives (now 10TB storage) and Windows 11. In fact only the computer case remained the same. Especially the loss of data and restoring my email server caused big headaches. The data was recovered and restored from back-up, but getting the email back to where it was before was a troublesome and frustrating experience.
Anyway, as you can imagine this absorbed all time and energy in the past 2 weeks, especially because I am not a computer expert and these kind of things you are faced with every 6-10 years or so. But ready to dedicate all my time to the 2025 VRC Worlds now and start working on doing the race videos for the 9 official Worlds classes.
Apologies for my absence ... read more
14.10.2025 17 comments Video: 1 available
The final time schedule for the upcoming 2025 VRC WORLDS events. The racing schedule and track allocations have been significantly modified after member feedback and input.
The 2025 WORLD SHOOT-OUT GT3 CLUBRACER event is now a weekly 4-round event for 3 driver levels, Rookies, Sports and Pro and will be ran during the last 4 weeks of the 2025 Worlds.
The official VRC Worlds classes have now been evenly distributed over 4 12-day periods, with an on-road and off-road Worlds event each period.
The 9 official 2025 VRC Worlds classes all count for the prestigious OVERALL 2025 COMBINED WORLDS ranking, on-road and off-road combined!
2 NEW TRACKS
The Welkom Arena Oval 2025 will be used for the VRC Oval Worlds for 1:10 electric NASCAR trucks the pitlane has been moved to the infield side of the front straight and all 4 corners have been rounded to create a perfect 4-corner oval.
The Welkom Arena 5 is a new layout the the famous South African r/c racing facility, designed by VRC. It will host t... read more
17.09.2025 20 comments Video: 1 available
I recently re-posted the video of the very first Euro's for 1:8 in Modena Italy, back in 1974. I also posted images from that video of Ronnie Ton's independent suspension car as a tribute to his contribution to model car racing, not only for his unique and innovative independent suspension chassis, but also for his eye for detail. Model car racing was not only about speed in those days but also about appearance. Aerodynamics played hardly a role in these early years of r/c racing.
When chassis, tires and engines got better aerodynamics became more and more important and eventually completely took over appearance and scale looks. Modern 1:8 scale cars have zero resemblance with anything that is being raced today in real life.
Our 3D developer has created a modern LMP body, these are the sportscars being raced today, and have scaled them to fit a current 1:8 chassis, the Serpent 190 chassis and true scale.
We would like to start a discussion about this subject and find out what you think of an 'almost'... read more
29.07.2025 0 comments
A new set of wheel colors has been added for GT3. The new color range is more 'anodized' looking and therefore matches much better with almost any body paint scheme and color.
These new colors have been applied to GT3 front and rear wheels 1. The original color set is still available as GT3 front/rear wheel 3. The GT3 wheel can be selected in the Car Set-up menu and the wheel color can be selected in the top selection bar in the Car Set-up menu. Both the body color and the wheel color can be changed on the track in the Heads-Up-Display while in the pitlane. Body style and wheel style can only be changed in the Car Set-up menu.
Don't forget to save the new wheel color and body paint scheme as a new set-up!
