Radio Car Racing

Radio Car Racing

If you called a hobby grade radio automobile a "toy," you would most likely get an earful from the owner of the radio automobile. Hobby-grade radio cars are not toys. There is a toy-grade radio automobile that may be bought at Wal-Mart but you won't realize hobby-grade radio cars on the shelves there. Hobby-grade radio cars are approach additional expensive than the toy-grade radio cars and the people who own and race hobby-grade radio cars don't seem to be youngsters.

The organization that oversees radio car racing competitions is called ROAR (Radio Operated Auto Racing). The organization is overseen by IFMAR (International Federation of Model Auto Racing) and is that the governing body of most electric and gas radio car racing events within the United States and Canada. Every year ROAR publishes a rule book that is the "bible" of radio car racing events that are sanctioned by ROAR. Results of sponsored competitions are posted on the ROAR web site also upcoming scheduled events. ROAR could be a nonprofit organization that has insurance coverage for native radio automotive racing club's members, events, and venues.  The cost for each club is regarding $thirty five.0zero annually.

There are all types of radio car competitions. There are, of course, races however there also are truck pulling contests and a variety of other competitions in that the house owners of radio cars participate. Regional, national, and world competitions are sanctioned are sanctioned by ROAR.

Competitions that are sanctioned by ROAR embrace both on-road competitions with off-road competitions. There are nine national competitions scheduled for 2008:

Carpet On Road
Paved Oval
Off Road Fuel Truck
Off Road Electric
Carpet Oval
On Road one/eight Fuel
Off Road Fuel Buggy
On Road 1/ten Fuel Sedan
On Road Asphalt