tuned machine than a Monster Truck. It would be like wheeling a CAT dump truck versus hot lapping a Dodge Viper. A Touring Car is suspended at all four corners by an extremely sensitive oil filled spring/damper tube, collectively referred to as a shock or a damper. TC’s chassis are usually composed of 3mm-duraluminum, fiberglass or carbon fiber graphite. These cars are not cheap to manufacture but performance comes along with the cost. These materials are used due to their lightness, but more importantly they are highly resistant to flexing under the constant loads that a three-pound racer encounters while doing 60 mph around a banked oval. These bad boys are built for speed as well as precise, razor sharp handling. These speedsters are not forgiving, a tweaked chassis or the wrong tire diameter will have you doing donuts down the straights which will eventually send you spiraling into a track marker, shattered graphite is not pretty, nor is it inexpensive to replace. Monster Trucks are intense, don’t get me wrong, but they are much more friendly than the Touring Car events where you race blitzed out of your mind for four to five minutes. I think the main differences between these vehicles, besides their obvious purpose built traits, is the crowd that follows them, Monster Truckers are very competitive but know sportsman ship and are never too busy to help out a newbie. You can always see these men and women helping the novices out, that’s what every aspect of R/C used to be, things change, some good some bad.Touring Cars are very new in the R/C circuit compared to MT’s. It used to be just a side hobby that people raced around a neighborhood cul-de-sac, it is now a full blown war, whose car can go faster, who has more go-fast goodies, those with the dough have the go. MT’s will never see this mentality due to the basis in which they were created; persons over performance. TC’s are fiercely compe...
