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Inspirational Motocross Race
If you love racing, and specially if you love Motocross, watch this race. It will be worth it.
Neo17-Day 3, THETeam Supper
On this day of celebration, I have outsourced my blog to Fat Jesus, as I have to focus for tomorrows mains. There will surely be more juicy blogs next week. For now, enjoy being told what to do.
Fat Jesus’ 10 Commandments:
1. Thou shalt all go BLACK Edition.
2. Thou shalt not covet your neighbours car.
3. Thou shalt not marshal like Spaniards or Italians.
4. Thou shalt run eTruggy. Tis brilliant.
5. Thou shalt only drink hot chocolate with coffee.
6. Thou shalt never case THE Quad.
7. Thou shalt enjoy THE Team Supper.
Neo Day 1 -PRACTICE
Day 1, so far so good. Practice has gone better than ever before at NEO. I seeded into both top heats, 14th in both, which I have never done before. My lap times are OK, but still 1 second off the best. I would like to see if I can find the pace needed. My cars feel really good. I made changes for each round, and both times the changes improved my car. Now for tomorrow I will just leave them, and drive as well as I can! Sounds easy.
The track is very good in my opinion, faster and more flowing than most years. Similar to last year, which was the first of this new style. I prefer this a lot to how it used to be, tight, hairpins, etc. This is wider, and more raceable. It also has sections where good drivers can go for it a bit more, and make up time, which is how great tracks should be. We don’t want everyone doing the same thing every lap. The surface seems really bumpy and uneven, catching a lot of drivers out in seemingly easy sections.
There is really no rest, you have to be driving your car and concentrating at all times. In the first practice, I kept forgetting that the front straight ends right after the driverstand. I just went straight and then last minute handbrake, which was quite embarrassing.
Everyone seems to be running clay compound once again, the AKA guys running slay Typos for the most part it seems. I don’t know if one tyre is better than another, they all seem to be pretty equal at this point. As for car’s, this track isn’t really the kind of track that will favour one type of car, because it has a good mix of everything, it has the jumps, and woops, but it also has on power bumpy corners, as well as off camber sections, and tight corners. So a car really needs to be good at everything, and not be lacking in any department………………….C-hub!
Max Mört is doing very well at his first NEO, and so is Petri Ström, the mini cup champ running a loaner. After each other in 54th and 55th.
I really only have one main point from today.
We started racing at 8:30 or 9, and the day ended at 8pm. There were 23 heats, and we all raced 3 times, except the lucky ones racing both classes, that got to run 6 times. INFINITELY MORE ENJOYABLE THAN 6:30 TO 4AM COMPLETE BULLSHIT “RACES”. Just sayin’. We actually had time to socialise, and get some sleep.
Neobuggy is a race for the RACER, and one that looks to improve RC, with extensive coverage, a lot of track time (value for money), special dash for cash and junior final events, food, snacks, hobby shops on site, and even accomodation. It’s just really damn good, and all these professional race promoters running these money grabbing races elsewhere should take note.
Peace.
An Opportunity Is All You Need
I look at Fajar staring at me, and I remember that we got this life, and that’s it. Everyone starts at a different place, but we all deserve a chance. Be a good person and you will become surrounded by good people. It’s just how the world works. I have been given a lot of opportunities by a lot of good people, and you can be sure that I have made the most of them. I am extremely grateful for all the support I have received, and I hope the favours get returned over the years, and that I can pay it forward to others too.
I have been working very hard over the past few years, and at a point lost 99% of all available hope. Now things are looking much better, and all signs point to great things ahead. Motivation and dedication level up to 100% again! Remember that behind almost every overnight success, there’s years and years of thankless hard work.
If there is one thing I have learned in life, it’s that everything starts with you. Your own attitude and your own decisions determine everything about your life. There are no excuses. It’s easy for me to say, posting blogs from my privileged position, but I have met people who have gone through true hardships, and they prove this theory to be true, time and time again!
You know all those things you have always wanted to do? You should go do them.
On another note, I re-discovered pickled beetroot today. Man it’s good!
We Talkin’ About PRACTICE!
A very good article about a lot of the things that I keep writing about on here!
How to make your kid good at anything, according to a world expert on peak performance
Taking a Break
I decided to take a three day break. All orders shipped, now we are just waiting for a bit. But I didn’t expect to miss a day on the blog! It happens, sorry! For now, just watch this video! How good does that car look? ❤
SOLD OUT – Thanks 4 that #BLACKedition
Well, it doesn’t happen every day, but today is the 1st of April, and the BLACK Edition was Officially released. All pre orders were shipped out today, and the USA and EU store stocks.
Well, we made the kits available in the USA and EU stores already, and the day of the release, and we are SOLD OUT! The only kit left is 1 kit in the EU store. And I don’t expect it to be available for long, the way things are going. We are now figuring out how many weeks until we get more. Our distributors will of course have kits in stock, and you can check them out here.
And not only that, in America, ABSOLUTE HOBBYZ couldn’t resist the BLACK Edition either, so how about you all show them they made the right choice, and you make sure they are out of stock too?
So thank you for that. That’s pretty amazing, it went from OK to BOOM in just over a week. I don’t know what it was. Maybe it was #watergate?
You know all those things you have always wanted to do? You should go do them.
REDS 2143
Buy it and shut up.
RC Car vs Dirtbike
Today I did something a little different. I headed to Perris MX track and we shot a video with me racing my car against dirt bikes on the motocross track. We had Renaud Margry originally from France, riding over here now, and THE Mike Craig, Supercross race winner back in the 90s I believe, and father of Christian Craig. They thought they got my silly RC Car covered but they were ready to do battle regardless.
Well, to be honest, they did have me covered, but I still think I got more corner speed! I hope we got some good shots, and it will be a fun edit. We were almost done, and were filming a nice berm section on the track, and the roost of the bike kept flipping my car over, so I went first into the corner. It worked great the first time. 2nd time I hit a soft spot, lost speed, and got steamrolled by a 450 dirtbike. It blew the body off and tore it up, smashed my pipe, and bent my chassis and front shock! Damn it! But we still filmed another section after that too. JQRacing – Built to survive being run over.
Thanks to Jimmy from Freethepeeps for setting it all up, it was a lot of fun! Below you can watch Craig Jr battle Webb, in one of the best races I have seen. And that move at 3:25…..If I’m having a bad day, I can just watch those 3 seconds, and I’ll be all ok again. And below that, you can see that it hasn’t been all smooth sailing for him. MX is a tough sport.
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