June 2012 Vintage Race Practice day - Egress

The weekend of 9th and 10th of June sees my club host the '2012 Castle Hill Vintage Buggy Festival', which has kindly been co-ordinated by TC member RETRO R/C (Love your work Darryn ;-) ).

The club included a vintage class in its racing schedule to give some of time to prep what we are going to run at the festival. I put my Supershot through its paces (see the June 2012 Vintage Race Practice day - Supershot album) and also gave my egress runner its first taste of race day action. It was only a small field of 5 buggies in the vintage class, given it wasn't widely publicised, however, they were ALL TAMIYAS. A frog, a Stadium Blitzer, a Stadium Thunder and......wait for it....2 Egress. Mine runs the box art silver and the yellow egress in the below photos is run by a mate of mine, Ed.

Once I got some setup issues out of the way, the egress performed quite well, however, I'm sure an extra tooth or 2 on a pinion gear should really see it improve greatly. Looking forward to the main event in a few weeks :-)