One of the other long-term RC tracks in SoCal has been the Ventura Road Runners facility in Camarillo, CA. It’s located in a public park/school area and, because of that, has a long history of …
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Vintage Race Report – 1999 NORRCA Division 3 Sedan Championships | CompetitionX
Another NORRCA Sedan Championship race held at the famous Western RC in Las Vegas, NV. I raced Expert Stock and Expert Modified with my HPI Pro 2 – such an amazing car back then. Oh, …
Read More »Vintage Race Report – 1999 NORRCA Western Spring Road Course Championship | CompetitionX
Western RC was an amazing onroad/oval track located in Las Vegas, NV. It was a few miles South of the strip in the middle of an old junkyard – you’d never know this place existed …
Read More »HPI Sport 3 Flux Audi i e-tron Vision GT Touring Car | CompetitionX
A few days ago we posted the teaser photos of a new TC from HPI – well, the Audi i e-tron has landed! This new ride is based on the Sport 3 FLUX and features …
Read More »HPI Audi Sport 3 Flux Sneak Peek | CompetitionX
The folks over at HPI Racing have dropped a teaser photo of an upcoming Sport 3 Flux! Not only are we spotting the highlighted Audio logo, we’re seeing some huge indents in the front hood …
Read More »HPI Savage X Flux V2 Monster Truck | CompetitionX
Well well well – it looks like HPI Racing is coming back strong with the (re-)release of one of their classics – the Savage X Flux! This V2 version does have some styling cues from …
Read More »Vintage Race Report – 1998 HPI Viper Cup | CompetitionX
HPI used to hold races called the Viper Cup – similar to the HPI Challenge events – basically a race series for people with HPI cars. It was a cool series, travelling to places like …
Read More »HPI Re-Releases 4 Classic Bodies | CompetitionX
We’ve been slowly seeing more and more product start rolling back in from HPI, great news since the companies future was up in the air some months ago. Recently the company has announced the re-release …
Read More »Tony Phalen’s 2008 HPI Nationals Winning HPI 5B
Back in 2008, HPI held their first ever 1/5 scale Nationals at Milestone Motorcycle Park in Riverside, CA. At that time I knew about the 1/5 scale cars but didn’t have one, hadn’t driven one …
Read More »HPI Racing Gets Another Chance | CompetitionX
It’s not secret that HPI has been having some issues lately. The UK branch has been losing people left and right and the US finger of the company has been all but dissolved. Quite the …
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