Welcome...
Welcome to the Colchester Model Car Club website. We are a radio controlled model car racing club based in Easthorpe,
just outside Colchester in Essex. We race 1:10 scale I.C. (Nitro) & electric on-road cars every Sunday all year round.
We also offer practice nights for most on-road & off-road models during the summer months. All racers need to be insured through the BRCA (contact the club for details)
CMCC SEASON RACE DATES FOR 2011
Racing at the C.M.C.C. track...
D1RC
An Introduction from D1RC
Hi, it's about time we introduced ourselves more formally! We're the Drift section of your club and we meet about once a month on Saturdays - and you are welcome to come and join us!
The section was formed about a year ago and was born out of our love of the Colchester outdoor circuit which we've used since 2006 for the D1RC National Drift Series, regularly reported in Radio Race Car magazine. The island design provides so many great drift courses it was a natural choice and it's location is ideal for the Essex and surrounding county's drifters. We're still relatively small in number, around ten members for the start of 2012, but all hooked so those numbers can only grow and there's plenty of space for expansion!
So that you know what we get up to on your track, drifting is not racing but every bit as exciting and not nearly as expensive, not because we don't use top spec equipment but because we don't suffer the same breakage rate as racing. We use 1/10 electric TC chassis but fit low grip polyethylene based drift tyres, then mess around with differentials and suspension so as to try to regain some of the grip lost and control the cars. We drive the circuit, or part of the circuit where out driver is judged and scored, sideways where the judges score us on speed, angle, line and general wow factor. At first we are judged in qualifying, one car at a time judged out of 100 points. This gives us a place in a knockout style finals ladder where two cars drive against each other where they take turn to lead the course, the chase car trying to mirror the lead car and stay as close as possible without touching. If you imagine all this happening on ice like conditions with 10.5t brushless cans and fully programmable ESCs normally set to bursting point - boring it ain't!
Adapting last years electric touring car to a drifter is a relatively low cost project, mostly a rebuild of what you've already got, so if you'd like to try out your skills and join in the fun (and it is all about having fun), then check out this link to the D1RC forum and the dedicated thread where the club activities are arranged here. We certainly don't want you to stop racing, after all, it's a great way to keep your drift reactions honed, but we'd certainly like you to come and give drifting a go. What's more, it's on a track you're already familiar with and since you're a Colchester club member, the only costs are limited to the £5 track fee. Bargain! Just bring along your CMCC and BRCA membership cards and join in.
