Where do you go driving?

[kirk13]

Just asking this out of curiosity. I need to take my cars down to the recreation grounds at the bottom of my road. Where do you guys and gals go driving?

[ChrisRx718]

I'm fortunate that I currently rent a house with a large garden (about 12x30 meters) so it's pretty good for basic thrashing around. You can't get to max speed with the fast buggies which means less chances of breaking anything!

This subject was something I was pondering recently. I'm now working as a travelling salesman and I regularly drive past places which I think would make great crawling sites. I've also driven right past Snetterton several times (not sure it's open during the day?).

The next thing is keeping two cars, spares and batteries in my car. And hiding it all from my bosses and the general public (I also travel to places like Harlow...)

[Frog Jumper]

I made a small loop in the backyard for my son's Bush Devil... I run my Frog in the street...

I'm currently on the look out for a large parking lot, but haven't found any except at the airport...

There is a RC Club track about 45min away for members only (no racing, just bashing and practice), but you have to pay $xx to get a membership to drive there... I don't think I'll be able to get there often enough to make it worth my $$$...

Terry

[Nobbi1977]

I am very lucky that we have lots of open spaces here but you need something that can run in tough grass. There I a large woods 7 miles away and we go walking most weekends in the summer and take a car or two.

I work in a school with massive grounds with AstroTurf and MUGA as well as grass pitches. I never run at work though, although I think it would be fun with a few people

[werewolf]

Our club has an indoor track about 10 minuted from my house. We mainly drive modern buggys, but from time to time I take my Tamiyas for a spin there too. In the summer there is an outdoor track about 1h away and two times a year I race my Tamiyas at our Nordic Vintage Challenge in Eskilstuna (quite close to Stockholm).

[Pumesta]

I usually head to the beach or the park. The beach is good fun but cleaning the sand from both the R/C car and the 1:1 car afterwards is less fun. The park is ok with a mix of asphalt, gravel paths and big playing fields. Whats not so good is when you loose it and barrel roll into a flower bed full of daffodils right in front of the grounds keeper. The park can get a bit dull as it's pretty undemanding. When I was a kid there was a big field full of big piles of stones, it was great flat enough for some high speed runs, big piles of small stones to do jumps on and a few muddy bits for a spot of mud bogging.

[firefoxussr]

I regularly to go the local park for it's 8 tennis courts (and one usually occupied basketball court). I can use my F1 cars and Cup Racer, both of which are less than 10mm off of the ground without too much destruction (the tennis net poles are not very forgiving...).

Now if I have the TT02 or anything I don't mind getting scraped, I go to.... Parking Garages. Here in south Florida the top 2-3 levels are all but unused. Which is even better when it rains, because I can still drive!

I'm mostly on-road, but I do take the buggy to the park. I will bring the newly acquired XV01 after building.

[markbt73]

I'm lucky enough to have a large (but steep) concrete driveway for the on-roaders, a long skinny gravel side yard for the off-roaders, and a woody ravine behind the house for the scalers and crawlers. My house sits on 1/4 acre of land.

[Saito2]

I run around my backyard mostly. The Misses and I used to get out to a baseball diamond about once a weekend in the summer, but my 3 year old daughter has pretty much put an end to that.

[Ian_Gsi16V]

I am very lucky where I am, I have plenty of open green land to run off road and I have beaches within 5-10 minutes drive weather I turn left or right at the of my road.

I also have a number of large open car parks that don't seem to get very busy so great for anytime I fancy keeping the car clean and sticking the tarmac tyres on!

I have learn't the golden rule now, no matter where you go, carry the toolbox in the car so it isn't a wasted journey

[NobbySideways]

I live on a ten year old housing estate in the UK, luckily from that era when they were bound to put in large grass spaces. We go up there with the kids and put out a couple of half water filled pop bottles to race around. I vary the circuit every time to spare the grass.

[Mad Ax]

There's a good patch of firm mud, short grass, a bit of rough tarmac and some gravel not far from home (or work). I quite often pop out there on a lunchbreak, although running alone is a bit dull.

There's a good spot for crawling near there but it can be hard to park when it's been raining and if it's damp, it's really really mucky.

There's some awesome places for rock crawling deeper into Somerset, but that's a bit of a drive for me and harder to justify on a busy weekend. We're a couple of hours from the beach, and when we do go we spend time together, I don't have much time to play with toy cars.

I'm currently looking for a good place to go with my drifters.

When I've got my 1:1 camper finished I'll keep a couple of cars in the back so I can always stop for a play if I'm out somewhere and spot a good venue.

[Nitomor]

We discovered this BMX track 10 mins from our house, it's part of one of these new housing recreational centres. It never seems to be used by BMX's anyway, although my kids found plenty of body pins there so someone else is also using it for RC. Larger clips so I'm guessing 1/8 scale or larger. This is perfect for our cars and a lot of fun with a great breakfast Cafe a couple of hundred yards down from it. Breakfast and Bash, would more could you ask for...

The beach is about 30 minutes away but never run an RC there before. We also have a disused colliery which is good for bashing at but that's about 45 minutes away. Not found a good crawling site yet.

[chevelle]

My backyard track

[Dojo Dave]

Here in south Florida there are lots of open flat spaces, parks and parking lots, I recently took wife and kids to Okeeheelee park where the world waterski chapionships are held, there playgrou ds for the kids when the kids have had enough. But watch out for the water hazards. Theres also a nice road track about 10 minutes from home 5 from work, open to the public and the local club races there monthly now. And for just a bit of fun, I live in a town house which is built on an oval court so I can race my kids around the oval of blacktop. A spoiled I suppose. Time is the issue.

[Pablo68]

I run mine near my house. Sometimes out back on the grass (Monster Beetle), on the road out front, a paved laneway/road one door down, a park with grass and paths in it and an old ex-golf course which is now public open space.

[Nobbi1977]

I had a thought. My Mum has a 20m X 30m allotment. There are loads of unused ones near her and I am wondering if they would let me turn one in to a track. £35 a year and a bit of digging could be fun

[shenlonco]

I go in the local park and by a school by me and some times in the mountain near me and also some times by a reservoir near by.... if I find a sot when driving around that's not to far I will try my RC's there or anyplace I think that will be a good running spot.... also take them out in the street because I live on a dead end.

any place is better than no place!

[Thirteen30]

My yetis go everywhere from bike trails to skate parks and tracks, my tamis go on the road, gravel/dirt lots (undeveloped areas around town), and to the small track in town. My onroad sticks to dusty parking lots these days

[Palfertronic]

I have a bike trail that starts across the road that is good for doing donuts and long slides...but in process of making a hillclimb in my back garden, it slopes up at about 30 degrees for about 10 metres...grass was cut yesterday, so today will see the first test!

[Mad Ax]

This post inspired me to throw my Blitzer and my 1/16 E-Revo into the boot today so I can head off for a bash at lunchtime. Excellent weather today too

[Wooders28]

Went past my local bmx track where I take my cars,on the way back from the tip before and stopped to take some pics,Went back to get a car to bring back,but got caught up in husband / dad duties.

It's only 2 mins from my house and I really don't get there enough.

[Nitomor]

Looks awesome Tony, and picturesque too!

[Mad Ax]

This post inspired me to throw my Blitzer and my 1/16 E-Revo into the boot today so I can head off for a bash at lunchtime. Excellent weather today too

The road that leads to my bashing ground is closed until the middle of next month

I need a new bashing ground...

[Wooders28]

Looks awesome Tony, and picturesque too!

It's a bit big for RC's tbh,the jumps are 6ft+ high apart from this section

The temptation to clear the table top and then the triples was too strong,new dark impact chassis required. 😳

Also the track is too long to drive all the way around from one vantage point.

But after saying all that,it's somewhere really close by I can use my cars 😀