Tamiya Circuit, F1 Racing, around 1995

[markbennett46]

Ian Foxwell driving the blue white and yellow car

[JonVic1980]

I raced on this circuit many times from 1994. I have a lot of footage from the 1995 Tamiya Eurocup here i will upload to YouTube sometime. This was a great circuit very sad it is no longer there. I believe it was vandalised and the podium was burned down around 1996 time?

[Desawa82]

Well I last raced there in 1996 when I retuired from RC racing (the first time around!) and it was still runing then, so muct have been closed down some time after that, damn shame, still there just got some trenches dugf through it to prevent racing.

[offroadrc]

they are fast, i have the tamiya f40 that is based on these cars, i had ones put in a 10T reedy motor that was realy fast.

[Desawa82]

You going for a land speed record? That is a bit too fast to control in a race, and would soon over heat, even if you could keep it pointing in the right direction, perhaps on 4 cell or 1S LiPo it would be about right.

[offroadrc]

it was in 1997 i ran it on 6c nicd 1800 sanyo cells. we drove it on a long tarmac road, i gues it went above the 100 km/h

[Desawa82]

Yup, way fast! I had a Tamiya F12 geared for 75mph (120kph), and it pulled it, but man that is bonkers fast! Out of radio range in a second!

[Fernlenkfreunde]

Nice cars! ;-)

[Desawa82]

It's how fast and competetive they were on basic 1400mAh NiCd batteries and 27T motors that I remember, always tooth and nail, but without breaking the bank.