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Anyone in the Brackley / Banbury / Daventry area?

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Hey,

Are there any members in the Brackley, Banbury, Daventry area?

I'm looking for suggestions of places to take cars for a run. At the minute it would be with my Boomerang or Twin Detonator. In future it could well also be with my boys and (most likely) a Lunchbox and Mad Bull as well.

Somwhere a bit jumpy, a bit skiddy with a bit of space too open the cars up would be ideal.

Anybody know of anywhere?

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That used to be my stomping ground, grew up between Daventry and Banbury.  Got my first Tamiya from Trinders in Banbury, was gutted when they closed last year.

 

I used to take my cars out by myself all the time, my favourite spot was Badby Woods. I don't know if you know it

Don't use the front entrance on main road, go into village to "back" entrance. A big variety of surfaces in there and also a lot of bike trails that I built with friends when I was a teenage biker, are still there. Lots of doubles and stuff which, admittedly are a bit big for RC cars but still fun to blast on.

Or if you want to let rip with straight line speed have you tried the old airfield at Chipping Warden? Take the back road from Chippy to Aston-Le-Walls and half of airfield is still accessible.  It's great there because you literally are blasting your car down the runway, would be great for some high speed runs if you happen to be running crazy brushless speed set ups.

I also used to use Daventry Country Park a bit, but not when it was busy.

If you don't mind travelling a touch further there is the awesome Burton Dasset Country Park north of Banbury.  Every natural surface you could want at that place...grass, tarmac, loose gravel, rocks for rock climbing. RC flyers often get up there too.  

 

If you're taking your kids out with a bunch of cars, do yourself a favour and get up Burton Dasset...you'll have hours of fun up there and the views are mind blowing.

 

There's pics of me playing with my Willy at Dasset here in my showroom..

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=97833&id=24255

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=97833&id=24255

 

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@Olly_Lunchbox sorry I only just saw your reply.

We have indeed ventured to Burton Dassett :) it is a good place to run. Although the terrain does more suit bigger wheeled buggies (Mad Bull) and monster trucks rather than a typical 1:10 Tamiya buggy.

I didn't know about Badby woods so might have to check that out.

Same with the air field. I knew it was there but didn't realise any of it was publicly accessible.

Here's a pic of my TXT-2 at Burton Dassett...

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