‘From Race Control’ – Day 1 of 4WD Buggy

Today is the first day of action for the 4WD Electric Offroad World Championships in Chico.  The schedule here at the Silver Dollar R/C Raceway is 10 rounds of practice with drivers running in 15 car heats for practice.  The final round of those practice runs which is due to get underway at 17:00 local time will be controlled and will be used to determine the seeding of the 10 car heats for tomorrow’s 4 of 5 rounds of qualifying.  Thankfully a dry track means no delayed start like we witnessed on the opening day of 2WD and in terms of the track layout the only change from earlier in the week is a modification to the down ramp of the table top after the main straight.