Did you know that tiny remote controlled toy drag cars
can accelerate faster than a life-sized Ferrari?
Did you know that small remote controlled cars can reach speeds traveled by life-sized automobiles? RC drag cars can even accelerate faster than some of the best life-sized racing vehicles available. At competitions, many remote controlled drag cars can exceed 80 miles per hour in just two seconds.
So, what are some of the rules of RC drag racing? The International Model Drag Racing Association (IMDRA) holds competitions where each car needs to go a distance of 132 feet. The car needs to complete the stretch in two seconds or less, and IMDRA measures their speed and time traveled using advanced computer tracking technology. Whoever finishes in the least amount of time, wins!
What if you want to participate in RC drag racing but are unsure about your ability to build a record-breaking car or competing with many of the faster cars available? Do not despair; you can still enjoy racing remote controlled drag cars. Just enter your car into a bracket race. In bracket racing, the fastest car does not necessarily win, but rather the most predictable car.
If you enter a bracket RC drag race, you will be asked to set a goal time for your car, which can be more or less depending on your estimate of your car's abilities. The more closely your car's actual time matches the goal time, the more likely you are to win. The winning car matches the goal time better than the other participants' cars. So if you build a slower but more reliable car whose performance you can predict, it will outcompete the faster but more erratic cars.
If you are interested in building and racing an RC drag car, you have a variety of options available. You can build a nitro or gas powered RC car on electric remote control car. Both types of cars can give you solid performance, and the electric cars have sometimes even exceeded the nitro cars in speed. Of all RC drag cars, the fastest has been an electric car which has traveled the 132 feet in just 1.53 seconds.
Furthermore, when you operate an electric RC drag car, you do not need to bother with mixing nitro fuel, refueling, or tuning the engine; you get a quiet, easy-to-modify vehicle that can race just as well as a gas powered RC car.
If you do bracket racing, an electric RC drag car also has the advantage of greater predictability. A nitro RC drag car can dramatically vary in acceleration due to small changes in temperature. As little as five degrees' change in temperature can cause the gas powered car to deviate dramatically from past or expected performance.
If you race to see who is fastest, sometimes a change in temperature can give a pleasant bonus to your nitro drag car's speed. But if you do bracket racing, it will just compromise your ability to judge exactly how the car will do.
So if you want an adventure at ultra-fast speeds, involving a lot of challenging work and rewarding thrills, why not try racing RC drag cars?
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