Cyclone S Tips: Drive to Win!

"To finish first, first you must finish."

This saying is one all to commonly used. And with good reason.

If you can drive reasonably well, and you keep clean lines and don't crash, there is no reason why you can't win. As long as you are of competitive speed and are able to drive reasonably well, you should be able to WIN!

No matter how good the top guys are, they always will occasionally slip up and will crash or have a breakage, and if you are there to seize this opportunity it will give you a chance to win. It takes me back to one race that I ran in. I had made some silly mistakes, slipping from 1st to 3rd, and there was only 30 seconds to go. Fortunately for me, the guy that was in 2nd was not so far away from me and I managed to get past, and remember, this is spec racing, at the time it was with TT01's in the NZ Tamiya TT01 class. The guy in 1st was half the track away from me. But then his transmitter batteries went flat. And because he uses Ni-Cad rechargeable batteries, he had no prior warning before the race. And because of his mistake, I was able to catch him in the middle of the straight and get round to lap counting to finish first.

Also, in Stock, once you get the car handling right, Leave It! and if you are going to change the setup, make sure that you've recorded what the setup was previously.

When driving, also try to keep as much speed on in the corners as possible in Stock.