Broxtowe Model Car Club hosted round 5 of their popular Snowman winter series at their excellent outdoor venue. Finally the series lived up to its name ‘almost’ – and we were greeted by a white-over track. Even in open practice the track was providing excellent grip with the dBoots tyre working very well on both the DEX210 and the DESC210R.

Yes, you read that right DESC210R. Chief Team Durango designer, Adam Skelding, was giving the latest offering from Team Durango – the 2wd Short course (DESC210R) its first test run. The truck offers up the same innovations as the ground breaking DEX210 and will be highly tunable straight out of the box.

After throwing down the truck to clear the racing line and get some ‘cold weather’ testing in. The first impressions were excellent, the truck handled well in MM configuration and with a ‘bench TQ’ set-up on it, there didn’t really seem much to change.

The Broxtowe meeting would be a perfect place for the truck to make its debut as there is a ‘core’ field of SC enthusiasts who run to a 10.5T motor limit and the level playing field means that the trucks handling would be tested – that coupled with the freezing temperatures to test the composite mouldings to the limit.

SC.
Adam would take TQ in round 1 closely followed by SC regular John Brook. Round 2 was another close run affair with the deciding factor being who got out of the fender bending cleaner than the other driver. Round 3 saw an electrical gremlin put an early end to Adam’s run and in round 4 on a drying track, the lowly 13.5T that Adam was running was just being outclassed by the 10.5T -  leaving him open to ‘attack’. So whilst the DESC210R hadn’t taken TQ it had come through some pretty heavy impacts and hard racing unscathed – all good testing.

In-between Qualifying and finals, John Brook (TQ) took the wheel of the DESC210R for a comparison against his steed, and was instantly impressed by the grip and handling of the DESC210R. Suitably impressed with the truck, John described it as ‘Awesome’!

The final was a close race at the start with John holding off Adam and the pair separated by less than a trucks length for most of the first minute. Finally John left a small gap which Adam was able to squeeze through and from that point on, Adam didn’t look back – putting in laps just short of a second a lap faster than the rest of the field. It was an impressive debut for the DESC210R and a good first public test.  Adam used the new dBoots MultiByte SC tyre to take the win.

The DESC210R is being developed currently and we can’t show any photos of the insides unfortunately – but rest assured our international race team will be testing the truck out

2wd Buggy.
Team Durango drivers, Paul Robinson, Adam Skelding, Chris Bowater, James Ambrose and Andy Wesson all lined up for the A final after some close qualifying which was eventually taken by ‘local hero’ Ian Mellish. Paul, Adam and Chris all had chances to take TQ, but Ian seemed to have a phobia about hitting pipes and didn’t even so much as graze one all day. dBoots MultiByte were once again working well in the ever changing conditions, from frozen to a ‘drying’ track the A and B compound were working well as were the soon to be released ‘BlockPass’ tyre.

The DEX210 showed its popularity with 6 of the A finalists running the chassis.

In the final Ian lead from the tone and was never really challenged, it was rumoured that he grazed a pipe, but this can’t be confirmed. Paul Robinson dropped out early after he chose a ‘different’ tyre set-up for the final. Adam and Chris had a race long battle, with Chris eventually overhauling Adam to take 2^nd with Adam 3^rd. James Ambrose had a good final, getting upto 4^th at one point until a tangle with fellow TD driver Andy Wesson dropped them down the order a little.

Setups from the team can be found here:

DEX210