Sgt.Speirs

@Big Jon: Great race report! Your 2WD report sounds familiar to me. Like my first experience on the clay track at the Tamico Offroad-Cup in Kinzigtal. With low (or hardly no) grip on the front, I was also not the fastest, but without mistakes and no assistance of marshals I mostly ended up as second behind @ruebiracer. I think the right tires are the way to success. What tires were used by the other drivers respectively the driver who became first?

Last, but not least! Here's my summary of the glorious Tamico Off-Road Cup 2025 at EDC Kinzigtal. My son and me arrived on Friday noon, when the Kyosho Legendary Cup was in the final rounds. The weather was sunny...like in the summer and the track was dry and dusty. But the weather forcast for the next two days was not so good: - Some rain in the night from Friday to Saturday, but then no rain the whole of the day. - And more rain from Saturday to Sunday and rain until 11 o'clock, but unstable weather for the whole day. Due to the clay track and the report of @wtcc5 from last year, I took (beside the standard Dyna Blaster truck tires) also a set of buggy tires (Tamiya dual-block tires) to Kinzigtal. I tested the truck and the dual-block tires each for one or two batteries on Friday evening after the Kyosho Legendary Cup has ended. With the result to start the seeding on the next day with the dual-block tires. (Photo by Benjamin Küsters) After the seeding I had the 4th fastest time for three consecutive laps, but the lap timer had some issues with my times. I was listed with 104 laps and in time of 1h25:35.495 min. I assume that the training times from the day before have not been reseted. So I was grouped in the slower B-Group with my friend @ruebiracer who had similar issues. But not everybody was agreed with using "buggy tires" in the truck class...a class for cars with big wheels...so to keep the peace, I switched back to the standard Dyna Blaster tires. The first final started well. Starting from 10th on the grid, I overtook most of the cars just after the first and second corners, after driving mistakes or after they crashed into each other. It was not the fastest run, but without big mistakes and without issues like my strongest competitor @ruebiracer So I ended up on 1st place. Although faster than in the first run, I was only third in the second run...behind @ruebiracer who was second. The third and fifth runs were all similar. @ruebiracer was able to defend his starting position and drove to victory without making any mistakes. (Photo by Benjamin Küsters) In his race report he linked 3rd and fourth race from his view. Here is the 5th race from my personal camera man...thanks my son The overview of my 5 races: Run 1 2 3 4 5 ======================== Groub B ranking 1 3 2 2 2 Overall ranking 5 6 4 6 5 After two phenomenal days, I ended up in 6th place out of a total of 21 drivers. Thanks everybody from EDC Kinzigtal ( @bsy2010 ) and Tamico that this event could be happened in this way. You made an absolutely gorgeous job! (Photo by Benjamin Küsters)

Maybe 3 hours („results“ of the seeding)😉 As @ruebiracer mentioned in a previous post, our training session on Friday wasn‘t reseted, so our results made no sense for the grouping. My son filmed the 5th B-final. I will upload it to YouTube in the next few days😊

Great work, David! I‘m looking forward to your group shot😊

Nothing more to add from my side It was a great event and for me also a great experiance to drive for the first time on a clay track. And to met the nice guys from here (@bsy2010 and @ruebiracer & your relatives/friends from your tent) in person was the was the icing on the cake To be honest, without you in this group B, the races would have been really boring and only a race against the time to compete with the others in group A The only sad thing in this case was that we couldn't race with/against Jun Watanabe. And luckily I was able to take home some dust and dirt from the Black Forest as a souvenir Pleeeeeaaaase!😊

That‘s why I‘m a fan of the TRF201/BBX gearboxes or derivates of it. You have several spur gear / pinion options and an optional slipper clutch. Does the BBX gearbox actually fit into the DT-04 chassis now?

@ruebiracer: Thanks for the pictures and information regarding the seeding groups. I'm also really looking forward to getting to know you and the other guys (e.g. @bsy2010). Have also a safe journey/arrival! I'm planning to arrive with my son on Friday morning, but he will be only my personal supporter

Nice paint job (done by the pro) But your post would be more appropriate in the RC gallery thread or in the Porsche 956 thread.

@alvinlwh: Not maybe…that‘s it (I mean the motor plate, not the spacer option)😉 And it‘s also shown in this way in the manual of the DT-02MS By the way, I had the same issue with my Dyna201 gearbox and the Torque Tuned motor: My Post on Instagram

Tamiya wants you to buy the optional DT02 Alu Motor Heat Sink #53831 With this you can rotate flipp the pinion (grub screw towards the motor)...

@ruebiracer: Do you have final pics of your Blaster or „let you the cat out of the bag“ on Saturday?😂

Last updates for the upcoming Tamico Offroad Cup…TamiyaClub decals😁

@Kol__: Nice buggy and great shots!🥰 Looks like you had a lot of fun.

Do you mean the Tamiya BBX gearbox (BB01 chassis) or my BBX gearbox variant? Both gearboxes are compatible with the BBX/TD4 ball diff or the TA06 (oilfilled-)gear diff.

If there is no other (Tamiya) option, I would agree. But in case of the (iconic) Astute, I have to repeat my post from Jan 30th, 2025: