Driving TC to improve OR skills?

[Alex H]

Have been thinking a little.

Have an idea that I want to ask you more experienced guys. Looking on race results I can tell that the Top TC driver also do really well when it comes to driving off road. Marc, Victor are two examples.
I tried some touring this winter and I must say that I am a fairly good driver and almost every time makes the A finals but never hits the top 5 in the end. The first race ever I attended with my TC I came in second place! Very happy with that. But my heart lays with the OR and I want to improve my driving more. I am too careful and hardly ever makes mistakes but then I am not fast enough instead. In Tc I felt I could push harder and then came the confidence in myself and in the car. Therefore the great result.
I want to be able to transfer that confidence over to the turf.
Do you think driving 2D can improve my 3D?
I know, where is the real question in this but I only want to hear your opinions if you can gain something from one class to another.

[sosidge]

All practice is good practice. It's good to experience different classes too, it makes you more adaptable to different conditions.

I wouldn't say that TC will improve off-road driving skills particularly, the styles are very different - jumps is one obvious difference, but also the use of power and the lines are different too.

Marc Rheinard et al win races because they are very good drivers, not because they are touring car drivers!

[makinwaves]

Speaking as someone who came from TC to OR, I would say OR has a lot more finesse than TC. Granted I was never National Champion at TC (made 3rd overall in the SLCC prostock class), but I thought i'd just pitch up at PDA and be on a par. How wrong I was.

Jumping control, throttle control and shock set up are all things i'm picking up slowly from doing OR.

Yes fully agree top drivers will be top drivers in (pretty much) whatever class they run.

My advice stick to OR, enjoy the jumps, and the crack of off road. TC (for me) is a power game with very little of the atmosphere I have experienced in 4 months of off roading.

Enjoy the dirt!

[Matt-h]

+1 on that Mark

[AmiSMB]

I think that with on road you have to be gentle on the throttle but in off road there is more to contend with and the track does tend to change through the race and you have to be able to react to this very quickly. The great drivers in off road always amaze me in the fact they seem to make a bumpy track look as though it were smooth. I think that running a small sized class i.e. 1/10th helps your reactions for driving a 1/8th sized vehicle. I found this to be very similar with RC Helicopters as it is hard going from a 30 nitro to an indoor flyer like the Ikarus Piccolo but the other way round is so much easier.

[frogger]

If you want to go faster get yourself a 1/12th car. It's all about finesse and carrying corner speed. That or come and join us racing 1/18th scale buggies, they are super quick and controlled and we do massive jumps with them! Best of all both 1/12th and 1/18th OR is indoors (mostly) so not weather dependent.