for Manila: Mighty Gripper Club race 1st Oct.26 report

Hello My friends and Dear Mighty Gripper users,
Here is my blog report of The 1st monthly club race.

It was made by Me so sadden, Then supported by Asia TAC asia champ Mr. JP Reyes, Ralph, Mikey, Leo, and Manila On road RC racers. Thanks a lot!
We are going to have this club race at least ones in a month as I can.


On this club race day, We always are ready to have these classes below, by the way.
13.5T boosted class, 17.5T non boosted class, Silver can touring class, and Open F1 class, When we had players above 5 people.

We had 7 racers on the 17.5T non boosted class yesterday. Qualifying was best fastest Lap style in open track 15 minutes, TQ was as lately usual in 17.5T class taken by Leo.

16.83s     TQ, Leo
17.14s     2nd, taka
17.86s     3rd, Esmail
18.01s      4th, Noel
18.02s      5th, Rains
20.24s      6th, Jason

And 13.5T Boosted class Jerome Joined this 17.5T non boosted class, with adjusted top speed by EPA.


The Final was drop one 5 rounds races, with some handy cap experiment for top finisher for each heat.
Top Heat finisher must have 1 step smaller pinion gear after his top finishing. Also, we have something changed to starting grid. Race heat 2 and 4 was started by " Reverse starting orders". To make shuffling faster guy into traffic in-side.

After all 5times shuffling with handy-caps, We had find for the first mighty gripper club race 17.5T non boosted class winner,  It was " Noel Aldaba ".

winner : Noel 
( One of most addicted RC car racer in manila)

How much he is addicted? won't you never ask before!  He is always preparing minimum 5 up to 8 RC cars then he carry them all for his each race day in manila. Even abroad race tamiya asia cup, He always bring more then 5 kits as his common style. He is kind of my most unbelievable RC hobby Lover as I know.

2nd      : Leo           (our latest manila F1 and 17.5T class common winner)
3rd       : taka          (me from nasa mighty gripper company)
4th       : Jerome     (our young hope in any on road race nearest to champion)
5th       : Esmail      (guest from singapore Rc) 
6th       : Rains        (our young hope in F1 and 17.5T lately he became common A-main racer)
7th       : Jason        (an other one dear most RC addicted player)



We really were enjoyed this Manila mighty gripper club race together last time.
Please don't be hesitant to join this race with us, then just come next time!

see you!


each class Rule details are here

Players communication is priority of this mighty gripper club race.  Please enjoy to talk about your car set up with some expert racers in there.

And Please Expert racers do helping for everyone's car set up in this club race.

Manila mighty gripper club race

entry fee 400 php. " Run all you can! "

Double triple entry ok.  you can run all class by only one entry fee 400 PHP.

●General Rules For all classes

about qualifying:  

1 or 2 times of 10 to 15 minutes open track "best lap qualifying".

We took only your best lap. 

The qualifying details depend on how many players entry on race day.

about Finals: 

 Finals will be 3 up to 5 times of 5 minutes race for each classes.

● Open F1 class

tire : rubber
motor : same as manila F1 club race ( 540-J, 21.5T, 17.5T with each limited FDR)
body : F1 type, Indy type can use. C-car can't use
ESC : open, must be non boosted. or blinky mode
weight : non limit
Battery :  open for 7.4V lipo, 6.6V life, 7.2V sub-c battery
FDR: same as manila F1 club race

mighty gripper club race special rules for F1

Winner will have FDR handicap after his winning the heart (count by each heart)

Winner must run by 0.1 bigger FDR  then minimum FDR.( or previous FDR)
If some player had 3 heats won a day, His FDR became 0.3 bigger then original rules for next this club race.
As Maximum handicap + 0.5.
If the person had no podium (below 3rd), we remove 0.1 FDR handicap from him.



● Non boosted 17.5T meisters class

tire : ride or tamiya
motor : 17.5T brushless open
body : any 190mm type
rear wing : must be size of TITC, MTCC,Summer shoot out. And it cant be higher neither TITC, MTCC, Summer shoot out
ESC : open, Must be non boosted or blinky mode
weight : minimum 1400g
battery : open for 7.4V lipo, 6.6V life, 7.2V sub-c battery
FDR : Expert driver minimum 4.0.  for novice drivers open

special rules,
A winner will have FDR limit minimum 4.2.
For more winning add + 0.1 each won( count by heat win).  


●13.5T boosted class

same as mighty gripper cup.
no handicap system.

for all class Give way for lapping car: 

Please care and avoid car accident each other.

Rc car hobby is not expensive hobby if we don't break parts.

Also We cant build a racing competition without this rules. 

This club race maybe good practice for your preparation to join manila big race.

Please study How to give way here, and how important it is for car racing event.

( My first things what i studied when I started to join any racing was " give way to lapping car" me too.) 

by the way....,

※ Who is expert racer? In mighty gripper cup, You can always see who is Expert, and why he called by expert.

The person who has experience to have A-main top 3 trophy(medal don't include) in Mod, 13.5T, class pass these 3 years(2013,2012,2011).

The person who has experience to have A-main winner trophy(medal don't include) in F1, or 17.5T class pass these 3 years(2013,2012,2011).

The person who has experience to be series champion in orca cup, tamiya cup, HPI cup, manila F1 club race pass these 3 years(2013,2012,2011).

Even the person had trophy on any silver can class, those persons still can enter to novice silver can class.

example, latest silver can novice class winner " edward" still can enter to novice silver can class until he have Mod, 13.5T, 17.5T, or F1 class A-main top 3 trophy.

We may make a list of expert racers list soon.

Presently as I know who are expert drivers in mighty gripper cup,

 Mr. TAC asia cup champion JP, Ralph, Mikey, Jerom, Joseph, Josh, TAC asia champion Jomil, Tutoy, Jason, Leo, Vin,