1987 IFMAR Off Road World Championship Romsey Part 1 2WD

Vintage racing from 1987: Part 1. Watch Joel Johnson, Masami Hirosaka, Jamie Booth,Katsunori Kondo, Chris Moore, Kevin Moore, Eustace Moore, Rory Cull and Jay Halsay race in the 2WD finals with their Kyosho Ultima's and RC10's

[@ts440s]

I remember Alex for Parma he was like 70 at the time, he was the motor man as we called him. He use to come to races with 50 motors. Bob Novak I'll never forget as kids at the nationals in Ohio our Novak speed controller burnt up and a visit to his hotel room was like walking into a gold mine of speed controllers, the drawers were full of them. He took ours apart and fixed it on the spot. A big deal as we had no money as these electronic speed controllers were 200 dollars. He was so far ahead of the times.

[@crushedsnake7226]

john metyk so good to learn your sharing . This is an epic race for both masami and schumacher team.i just returned to rc hobby after 30 years it's a pity to learn Novak just closed down. :(

[@doug148877]

Ohhhh man, I remember going from the mechanical whatever it was that controlled the motor to a Novak electronic speed control. At the time it was mind-blowing!

[@brandonbentley5453]

Just awesome story and experience friend! I envy you! I met Cliff Lett at a hobby shop in I think 88 or so. He was signing posters of himself, big ones, with him holding the rc10 gold pan. It was like meeting Tyson or something to me! Best wishes and great story. A testimant to those great minds who simply love this hobby and sport.

[@brandonbentley5453]

Just awesome story and experience friend! I envy you! I met Cliff Lett at a hobby shop in I think 88 or so. He was signing posters of himself, big ones, with him holding the rc10 gold pan. It was like meeting Tyson or something to me! Best wishes and great story. A testimant to those great minds who simply love this hobby and sport.

[@brandonbentley5453]

Just awesome story and experience friend! I envy you! I met Cliff Lett at a hobby shop in I think 88 or so. He was signing posters of himself, big ones, with him holding the rc10 gold pan. It was like meeting Tyson or something to me! Best wishes and great story. A testimant to those great minds who simply love this hobby and sport.

[@Chriswizzv12]

We need more tracks like this, seeing the buggies dampers soaking up the bumps is fantastic. Eos/Astro just dont challenge the cars like undulations seen here.

[@VestedUTuber]

Tracks like this are beneficial to cost of entry to. While RC racing has always been expensive, back then a lot of your money went into getting dyno-tested hand-picked motors and voltage-matched custom battery packs. Nowadays, motors and batteries have gotten so consistent and significantly cheaper, but the kits, which used to be relatively cheap apart from a couple exceptions, are now quite expensive. Plus, for stock classes the higher-bite environment demands squeezing every last bit of speed out of your car instead of relying on car control to carry you to victory.
Modern-day racing buggies would struggle on a track like this, too. They're too overspecialized for smooth tracks.

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Thanks for sharing. I never saw the races in 87 so this is a treat.

[@velikon]

so cool. Thankyou so much for sharing

[@brandonbentley8532]

I was thinking, wow how buggies have come in speed. Then i remembered thinking back then, wow how do they make their buggies go so fast for so long.

[@bsimpson2288]

“I put a Trinity graphite plate on and a ball diff, other than that, it was stock.” -Joel Johnson
Hardly anything on that Ultima was stock.

[@dronepro7316]

Really? What else?

[@bsimpson2288]

@@dronepro7316 wheels, tires, gold shocks, fiberglass shock towers, turnbuckles, bellcrank, body/wing, wing mounts, universals. Only stock parts I see are the arms, tranny, and maybe the uprights and hub carriers.

[@VestedUTuber]

You sure you're not confusing the Ultima and the Turbo Ultima? The Turbo Ultima shared the same base platform as the Ultima but reworked everything else, turning what was originally a semi-scale buggy into an optimized racing machine.

[@bsimpson2288]

The Turbo wasn’t out at the ‘87 Worlds. Kyosho has since released a Joel Johnson replica version of what he raced at the ‘87 Worlds. Check it out to see what I was saying.

[@VestedUTuber]

@@bsimpson2288
Would be nice if you gave a timestamp.

[@VestedUTuber]

I just now noticed that this track resembles White Land Last Wolf from F-Zero Climax - or really, Last Wolf resembles this track. Quite the coincidence.

[@brandonbentley5453]

What used to go for championship tracks are worse then the poorest washed out club track today...boy racers in 10th scale are pampered now. 8th scale buggy truggy still kicking it hard-core old-school style.

[@therctutor8100]

Would love to see new age cars race on old school tracks.

[@johntuffy5721]

awesome

[@retroshack2960]

Wow!

[@BlackWolf42-]

I've never seen this, thanks for the video! At 9:57 did he say NiMH batteries? If so, that was a good long time before normal people got nickel metal-hydride batts.

[@VestedUTuber]

You know, if I were able to go back in time and take one modern car back to race it, I actually wouldn't bring any of the modern top-end racing vehicles. The car I'd bring with me would be a Tamiya DF03 with some hopups. Why? Because it's far more suited to racing on these old loam tracks than anything actually used in competitive racing today.

[@inventions47]

Cool 😎 anyone racing at Lords Hill around that time with footage?

[@1walkgirl]

la bamba just released aug 87 😂 @7.45

[@blackthunder7342]

Did they have to build a car at the event?

[@JamesSmith-ix4ui]

No they would have made them before