{"id":559,"date":"2012-06-12T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hrcdistribution.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:38:27","slug":"when-a-rally-legend-become-a-touring-legend-under-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hrcdistribution.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"When a Rally Legend become a Touring Legend under rain !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rally<\/a><\/p>\n

Some weeks ago, I decided to prepare a rain car for the 2012 outdoor season.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Racing under rain is quite difficult due to the electronic risks caused by\u00a0water. So, my criteria was the following ones:<\/p>\n

-A low cost car, but with\u00a0quality parts (plastics, transmission, bearings, differential).
\n-A totally sealed transmission.
\n-A easy to prepare chassis.
\n-A fully adjustable chassis, with turnbuckles, shocks angles, roll center etc.<\/p>\n

So, the only one car that corresponds to all these criteria was the Rally Legend chassis. So I ordered the ARR version, which is a Lancia S4 body, with ARR chassis (no electronics), sold with some hop-up parts (top deck, gear differentials, reinforced transmission for high power brushless motors etc).<\/p>\n

But I didn’t received the car yet… and on last friday, when I checked the meteo for the race week-end at Schaffhausen, where was held the second round of Swiss Championship, I decided to prepare a RTR car which is already available.<\/p>\n

So, I simply retired the RTR electronic, battery and motor, to replace them by my own components and allowed motor for Swiss Championship.<\/p>\n

I created some compartments on the chassis to separate the electronic items from the transmission, steering components and battery, and I go to Schaffhausen with a “almost” ready rain car (I had a body to paint, and some other preparation to finish). But the entire chassis and transmission remains the original ones of the RTR car, no change, no modification, no optional parts ! The only thing I changed are the shock springs; because I simply don’t know how are the original ones, so I decided to use springs I already knows. I also prepared an internal chassis cover in Lexan,\u00a0initially\u00a0made for the Associated TC3.<\/p>\n

\"Rally<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday was a sunny day, so my “RTR rain Rally Legend” stay on my 1\/1 car \ud83d\ude09 But as the meteo clearly indicated there is rain on sunday morning, I finished to prepare the car the saturday evening at the hotel.<\/p>\n

On sunday, I wasn’t able to run the first round of qualifying, because the body wasn’t ready for the start… I didn’t paint the new one, and I decided to adapt a hold Mazda body.<\/p>\n

When I saw the cars of the first qualification racing under rain, I had a lot of doubt: “is the Rally Legend able to compete them ?? It’s a RTR basis, and the cars actually on track are impressive !”<\/p>\n

For the second qualification round, under rain, I decided to start… First corner was terrible, I had to stop to set the dual-rate on radio \ud83d\ude09 . So, I started slowly, and the car perfectly react to the conditions. After two laps, I got the first position, and continue to drive, faster and faster. At the end of the qualification run, I did the pole-position, and I also set the best lap under rain… with a fully “out of the box” RTR chassis, against high level competion cars !<\/p>\n

For comparison, here are the best lap times under rain:<\/strong>
\n1. Lionel Troyon – Rally Legend RTR<\/strong>– 24’089
\n2. C\u00e9dric Br\u00fctsch – Sakura Zero – 24’747
\n3. Roland Kupper – Schumacher Mi4 – 25’575
\n4. Simon Alleman – Team Magic E4RS II – 25’984
\n5. Tom Eicher – Xray T3 – 25’986
\n6. Simone Leonardi – Awesomatix – 26’430
\n7. Michel Grosjean – TOP Photon – 26’708
\n8. Florian Oellig – Xray T3 – 33’424<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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