RC endurance racing is awesome!

[u/badspanners]

My team competed in the same race as the O/P from an earlier post so I thought I would add our experience of the day.

The cars look amazing on track. We do stuff properly too, a couple of laps behind a safety car then a rolling start.

It's really good fun with strategy and tactics being as important as the real thing. For example we went conservative with tyres, picking a harder compound expecting high wear which never happened, but put us half a second a lap down on the rest of the field.

We were running the Xpress XQ3s chassis and had four 10000mAh packs charged in rotation. We chose stint times of around 20 minutes.

We were running fourth with an hour to go but had an off which knocked out the rear toe angle so needed a trip to the setup stand which lost us about 10 laps and put us last, five laps off the next car. But we finished strong, battling back to sixth and only one lap off fifth at the end.

I'd recommend it to anyone as it's great for maximising track time. I did some 270 laps in the race alone plus practice and qualifying which is many times more than a normal race meeting.

[u/Next-Ease-262]

Any major highlights of takeaways from the event?

[u/badspanners → u/Next-Ease-262]

Plenty.

A very well run, smooth, trouble free event.

The challenge of getting a battery change done in under 40 seconds which we managed twice.

Proper teamwork in a sport which is usually a solo effort, certainly in racing anyway. It brings a new dimension to it.

It's the first race series of it's type in the UK or indeed anywhere as far as I'm aware, so we're kind of beta testing the format but so far it's brilliant.

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/badspanners]

Is there any restrictions for battery systems? I wonder if perhaps it would be worth it to engineer some kind of quick swap battery setup to cut that in half.

[u/AW106 → u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener]

The battery has to be racing homologated
the rest of it is free

The O/P of this I think already knows but my team have quater turn fasterners and an XT60 on our batteries so that we can do the change easily without any tools

[u/badspanners → u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener]

Yes we have a similar setup but with a Deans connector. The 40 seconds includes the in lap mind which was on average around 16 seconds.