I raced and competed for about 10 years with always smart driving but a tight budget which made me have not the best equipment in a time where NiCd batteries and brushed motors barely lasted for 5 minutes.

The USA Years

I moved to San Francisco between 1998 and 2006. I was in the early twenties up to the thirties. I hadn’t driven an RC car for maybe 7-8 years when I stumbled upon a local RC club in San Rafael. I tested a couple of laps and the guys asked me if I wanted to compete the coming weekend. I said I had not car or hadn’t driven in a while. I got to borrow some used stuff and ended up in second place. But I didn’t have the time to focus on racing but kept it on a fun level and played around with some Losi Mini-T at the local hobby shop and made a track in the backyard.

The Current Time

Always keeping up with what was happening in the RC scene browsing websites and watching YouTube. One day I stumbled upon a video showing Large Scale cars in my own home town. Wow, this was something different! I went to the next race and asked around what was available on the market, what brands, 2wd or 4wd. I quickly got attached to the Losi 5ive-T truck. This was in 2014. This was soo much fun. I went to a bash meet up and raced their in a sandy track. Hadn’t driven on a track for maybe 10 years I was competing with the fastest guy with a standard 26cc 5ive-T. Not the fastest or best acceleration but I knew how to find the best lines and not do any mistakes. Being a buggy guy I sold my 5ive-T and bought the 5ive-B on the same day I first saw it. And it was a kit, I love building cars. This was when I started modifying my car again. Large Scale makes it easier to fabricate stuff. The first year I competed in the RCBash Cup (the unofficial nationals in Sweden) I ended up second in total just one point behind the winner because I had to drop out of one of the races and couldn’t finish in one final due to broken servo. This was with a standard 5ive-B with a 29cc Zenoah but with some small improvements to the car but pretty much original. The year after I upgraded the chassis with some after market parts and put in an ESP 30.5 to compete better in torque. Winning 3 out of 4 races, and finished second in the fourth, I managed to grab the total win in the cup 2018. 

I also competed in the Euros in the summer of 2018 in Austria. This was my first bigger race in LSOR. Unfortunately I had all the bad luck you could think of. Burnt electronics, lost a wheelnut, my pipe broke, I broke my engine, my airfilter fell of. I never have any problems normally, I’m very careful going thru my car between heats, I smooth driving style usually not making any big mistakes causing crashes. The Euros were for 6 days and my best experience yet even if I had all these problems. I met so many great people, it’s really a big family out there!  

I’m also driving 1/8 scale electric (TLR 8ight-XE) to keep up practice during winter time. This helps immensely with my Large Scale driving, makes me faster and more consistent. I’m also practicing using VRC, the RC simulator on PC. It’s actually pretty good and realistic feeling.