YANKEE CHALLENGE - 1/4 SCALE RC CAR - ENDURANCE RACE : 12H OF SAINT-AFFRIQUE 2022

English subtitles added, so don't forgot to turn them on ^^
Endurance race of 12h organized by Yankee-Legend on the magnifique track of Saint-Affrique
Race from 21h to 9h
- Chassis 1/4 Yankee "Concept 92" for everybody but with free body
- Imposed tyres for all
- Stock engine Zenoah 270RC for the reliability chosen at random by racers before the race
Used material:
- Sportcam Gitup GIT2 Pro - 1080P/60FPS
- Digital Camera Canon 70D
- Lens Sigma 150-600/C
- Disported cobra flash

[@angryginger791]

This is fantastic! I'm not very familiar with RC car racing, but I do a lot of sim racing so this popped up in my feed. I had no idea people did such long endurance races with RC cars. Cheers to all those who participated from Connecticut, US!

[@davidbarnes6410]

It’s harder than sim racing eh. We have some great tracks in Australia.

[@angryginger791]

@@davidbarnes6410 I wasn't comparing the two, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[@davidbarnes6410]

@@angryginger791 I never implied any comparison. I was just commenting on first hand experience because I’ve done both. Not quite sure how you could have misread that.

[@angryginger791]

@@davidbarnes6410 You said it's harder than sim racing. That sounds like a comparison to me. LOL! NO worries, though. I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything. I just wasn't sure what you were getting at. You do have some awesome tracks in Australia. Of course, I only know the ones from sims. Bathurst, Phillip Island, Adelaide, Winton. If you know of any AC mods I should check out, I'd appreciate the suggestions.

[@davidbarnes6410]

@@angryginger791 oh yeah I did say it was lol. Probably because it’s so different from driving on a track. Real or sim. I’ve driven hard around most of the tracks you mentioned. Not raced. Just track days. Bathurst is mind blowing.

[@markeyhendrix]

That orange was flying hugging every corner

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Three Fifth scale champions behind the remote for this car 😉

[@daszieher]

​@@RowhiderRCRacingwhat position did it end up at? Just from watching your video I was amazed by the consistency of the driving. And of course, the "starter" was quick on his feet and precise with his hands. It clearly looked like a team that had practiced this. Was a joy to watch! Thank you for the video.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

​@@daszieher during the night, one of the driver (a former TT1/8 World Champion and multi-Large scale champion), has done a mistake at the end of the straight line and crush the car against a pylon. He destroyed the car and the electrical system of the circuit for 2hours after 6h of racing 😄

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

@@daszieher kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmmWgnlveL-BfMk The team of the Calibra was the same that the Ford GT40 who won largely in the 2023 race

[@scalebuilder_sweden]

Fantastic race, 12h Racing is impressive

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Thks you should look at the 2023 race even better in my opinion 😀

[@anniegrau118]

Magnifique circuit et belle course. Félicitations

[@harlyquin]

1:17 that little van with number 1 on it is adorable

[@theeeMitchi]

Not even a van, a small city car :D It's a mk1 Renault Twingo!

[@harlyquin]

@@theeeMitchi i dont care, its still cute as a button

[@discovolante6624]

@@theeeMitchi you must be fun at parties

[@theeeMitchi]

@@discovolante6624 I'm just pointing out what car it is, wtf :( usually people like it when they get the proper info in yt comments haha

[@discovolante6624]

@@theeeMitchi i bet they do, Ackchyually its Not even a van, its a small city car :D It's a mk1 Renault Twingo, look how smart i am, bask in my glory, bask i tell you!

[@epodu34]

Ca sentait la gomme dur ! Super piste ! 💪. Et 12 h chapeau aux pilotes. J'avais fait les 8 h d'endurance miniz à saint Clément de Rivière en 2009, tendinite main droite assumée 😂

[@Founworld]

Ca à l'aire tellement génial !

[@cannon15527]

Si!

[@rtpfixit]

I bet the onboard g meter telemetry is wild.

[@CassiZanetti]

Amazing drive

[@DABUAS69]

Great video and race! Cheers from Orange County, California -USA!!!!

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Thks a lot 😊. You will like the video of the 2023 race, with some nice GT40 and a very hard race.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmmWgnlveL-BfMksi=QdhNilWOwjhIocFF

[@nyashnader1]

Amazing, but I would imagine camera with fps headset would be even more so for the pilots

[@SINIS0RSA]

That would be awesome.

[@oojimmyflip]

nah it makes em vomit😂 and if you crash you die in real life🤣

[@murraymadness4674]

From what I've seen on video, you don't get a wide enough view, can't see competitors in your mirrors like you do when racing in person.

[@stefanthegerman3575]

The pajero looks amazing and sounds like rotary engine👍🏻

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

This Pajero is a very rare RC car, its value will be around 1500€

[@heuerspitstop]

Very nice Video and Race. It would be WAY cooler with On Board Cam like a TGI PV Drohne. That would match, maybe it just would work to put a Drohne on a RC Car and drive in VR to test it. This is my Dream over 30 Years. Someday I build a TGI PV RC Car in 1:4 Nice Race I subscribe immediately! LG HEUERs Pit Stop 🚗💨💥 ⚓North-Germany ⚓

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

It has already be done with third scale LMP cars (a specificaly developped for). But you need a very fast Electronic transmission system: racing a car on a circuit (in race condition) need more responsive reaction that the average fpv drone system. So as very costly in the end the project has been forsaken

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

That was awesome! :)

[@plixplop]

Sounds so cool!

[@fredko7086]

Excellent. Quelqu'un saurait me dire si ce genre de modèles ont des systèmes de freins, ou si on compte pour ralentir sur l'inertie et le frein moteur? Merci. Bravo aux amateurs pilotes et mécanos 👍

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Oui bien sûr tu as des freins, en général tu as soit un mono frein à disque mécanique ou des freins à disques hydrauliques comme sur une vraie voiture

[@fredko7086]

@@RowhiderRCRacing ok merci beaucoup

[@hdfrc6897]

Sympa👍👍👍

[@heuerspitstop]

Very nice Video and Race. It would be WAY cooler with On Board Cam like a TGI PV Drohne. That would match, maybe it just would work to put a Drohne on a RC Car and drive in VR to test it. This is my Dream over 30 Years. Someday I build a TGI PV RC Car in 1:4 Nice Race I subscribe immediately! LG HEUERs Pit Stop 🚗💨💥 ⚓North-Germany ⚓

[@kolysion164]

where can I find a 1/4 already mounted ready for use with a complete body full painted ?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

yankee-legend.com/epages/box21927.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2Fbox21927

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

You have the choice between polycarbonate or ABS bodies, PC are fully transparent and ABS are tinted. For a nice body fully painted like those in the video, the better choice is to find a good painter!

[@rse4379]

This is awesome. I can only imagine how much these cars cost.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

One car in endurance configuration cost about 1700€

[@rse4379]

@@RowhiderRCRacing That's it! Figured it be way more then that. Thanks for the feedback.

[@rawdyrider]

How many drivers per car?Cant be just the one surely? Also 1/5th or 1/4th?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

In average, 3 pilots per car but you can go from 2 to 5. A single pilot is by far too hard for 12h of driving

[@w33z0r]

Wow, never seen such a Thing as RC Endurance Races before, does the batterie in the remote even last that long ?

[@weallfollowmanutd]

Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Batteries in the remote last for days

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

In fact you can have several remotes for one car because not everybody is righthanded :) (like me). And yes you have to change batteries for the remote and for the car too. For such big cars, you need very powerfull servomotors which drink a lot of electrons

[@Angus_Marx]

As long as it brings Bon Scott back to life and generates a new Journey album with Steve Perry, A.I. is okay with me.

[@rocatalin88]

Why don't you guys use FPV glasses? I think it would make it so much more immersive.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Too costly to be fast enough to be usable in racing and because its not authorized by the rules

[@ShannonSouthAfrica]

Imagine doing that for 12 hours

[@murraymadness4674]

Those cars seem a bit small for 1/4 scale, maybe 1/5 scale? I'm building a fleet of vehicles for arrive-and-drive rc-racing, and they are about 2 ft wide and 4 ft long. I don't know whether to call them 1/3 scale or 1/4 scale.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

No sorry: 1/4 scale is 1/4 scale and not 1/5... 1/5 scale cars are much smaller. The wheelbase of the white BMW GTR is 640mm against 535mm for 1/5 scale cars. I don't know what kind of cars you take in referrence for your 1/4 scale but if you find those small it should be trucks

[@ontarget4076]

👍🏻👍🏻🤪😜✌🏻🖖🏻🎉

[@Lucas-se6hq]

1/4 ??? She looks smallest for scale 1/4 .

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

about 1.2m of length in average... so yes 1/4

[@Lucas-se6hq]

in the video it looks like it measures 70/80 cm maximum. but hey if you say it, I believe you. I'm not an expert, far from it.

[@Lucas-se6hq]

Je me rends compte que ta vidéo est en Français, je me fais ch*** a traduire pour rien …..

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

@@Lucas-se6hq va voir sur le site internet de Yankee et tu pourras constater par toi-meme la différence de taille. Les seules carrosseries 1/4 qui se montent sur des châssis 1/5 sont les Mini Cooper et Alpine A110, parce que elles sont minuscules en réalité... voilà tout

[@Lucas-se6hq]

@@RowhiderRCRacingnan mais je te crois pas la peine d’argumenter. Je disais juste "on dirait" qu’elles sont plus petites que ça .

[@fletcherjacobs3688]

I would do this fpv style with steering wheel and pedals. If I could afford it that is. Can’t even afford forza smh

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Its possible but very costly...

[@kassandrakassendre5893]

🤩🚗🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️🥰🥰👍👍👍

[@robertgriffith3475]

Seems to handle poorly

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Poorly is a bit hard but you have to know that there is no modern tyres like for the fifth scale for fourth scale cars, so the grip is more limited. Moreofthat only one set of tyres is authorized for this 12h race: so you cannot put the softest.

[@cellphonelightsaber]

​@@RowhiderRCRacingNo tire changes in a 12hr?? 🤯 Do you have to drive conservatively?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Yes, you have to manage tyres@@cellphonelightsaber

[@stanley1554]

Yeah, this just looks like a bunch of 1/5 scale cars...

[@KingKrashArah-Cee]

It's waaay bigger than 5th scale. What a comment u made. You must be a newbie to make a #$@& comment like that!

[@q5echo154]

You notice you dont see any of their girlfriends anywhere, right? Im jus sayin

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Their girlfriends/wife are there but drinking beers at the bar 😜

[@oojimmyflip]

never bring wives into a mostly male hobby it causes to much drama and they will try to fill you with tea and cake at the trackside, when all you want is a nice cold beer😂

[@60dana31]

very boring

[@JonnyJetson754]

In real life it’s awesome

[@epodu34]

If you not pratrice ..... You will not understand....😅. The set up of car its the same on race car. If you don't like motor sport, don't look 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@theflash0815]

@dana your comment is very boring

[@secretsquirrel2]

It really gets good starting at hour 9

[@eheggestad]

It’s more complicated than it looks, but you aren’t wrong.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Those are way smaller than 1/4 scale.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Those are exactly 1/4 scale: to homologate a car in 1/4th scale racing you have to respect the true scale for wheelbase, width...

[@Rich77UK]

magnifique! félicitations à tous. J'adore les voitures 1/5 aussi détaillées. le Pajero et la 3e place Twingo étaient glorieuses.

[@danieljones7843]

Awesome video of an awesome sport! Never knew quarter scale endurance racing existed! Greetings from the upside down land of bouncing marsupials and chronic sunburn! 🇦🇺

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Thanks a lot! Happy you appreciated it

[@Bogues_88]

so is it 1/4 or 1/5th scale ? I know lot of 1/5th scale in europe I thought 1/4 be bigger

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

it's 1/4 scale, a 1/4 scale car is about 1.2m long and 13kg. Middle of 90s, 1/5 scale has been created because a Yankee dealer in Germany (FG) found the car too big for those who leak of place. First 1/5 FG modelcars had a lot of Yankee parts

[@meudrone4k369]

Lindo de ver 🏎🔥💥📽👀😎😍💪🏼👍🏻👏🏻

[@fullsenderman8291]

Rc endurance racing f--k yes so awesome

[@simplegr33n420]

That’s gotta be rough. Even a 45 min main is challenging

[@codymckaymotorsports]

How fun does this look! And such a great facility as well!

[@bandit1200buell]

une course de fou

[@wheelsoncars]

Класс!!! 👍👍👍

[@BlackMetalRC85]

😃👍

[@kolysion164]

ou je peux trouver une 1/4 toute montée avec une belle carrosserie painte ?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

yankee-legend.com/epages/box21927.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/box21927/Categories/CHASSIS_ET_KITS

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Pour les carrosseries, elles sont disponibles en Lexan (transparente) ou en ABS déjà teinté. Pour avoir une belle carrosserie, il faut passer par un peintre: chez Yankee, ils ont de bonnes adresses à conseiller 😉

[@kolysion164]

@@RowhiderRCRacing est ce possible d'avoir 3 diferentes carrosseries paintes ? comme une 205 GTI T16 evo2, une Subaru WRC et une citroen C4 WRC???

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

@@kolysion164 ces carrosseries n'existent pas au 1/4 à ma connaissance: une carrosserie 1/4 coûte entre 200 et 250€ moyenne et il faut ajouter 150€ de peinture: c'est un budget une carrosserie de cette taille

[@kolysion164]

@@RowhiderRCRacing qui pourrai me faire une carrosserie perso ?

[@Mitjiva]

C'est trop cool !

[@getsideways7257]

Are those rear-steered? Or 4WS?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

In this competition: only RWD if it's your question

[@getsideways7257]

@@RowhiderRCRacing I believe you mistook me for asking what kind of drive these cars have. I was asking what kind of steering do they have. I'm pretty sure I saw rear wheel steering components on the car that was serviced and also some of the cars on track doing extremely sharp turns impossible with conventional steering. So, am I mistaken or can the rear wheels on the cars be steered (to turn left or right)?

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

@@getsideways7257 ok sorry, I was surprised by your question to be honest that's why I :) So no, all these cars are only front steered. What you have seen as a steering system is a device used to adujst the rear toe like on a true racingcar. Generally you will adjust the chassis with 1 to 2° of rear toe and 0° to -2° at the front

[@getsideways7257]

@@RowhiderRCRacing Ah, I see. Sorry then, I guess it's just that recently I took interest to rear wheel steering / 4WS systems, so that led me to seeing something that is not there :)

[@SystemofaDowns]

Single? 😐

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Single what?!

[@oojimmyflip]

Whats hard about this then? they all have petrol engines not glow engines to keep running for 12 hours. its to easy all you gotta do is stay awake for 12 hours, the petrol engine will run indefinately if you give it fuel and air. simples.

[@RowhiderRCRacing]

Did you ever try to race these kind of cars for 1h? It's very tiring. Its very hard to go fast without making any mistake: in 2022, the leader was a former IFMAR World champion but destroyed its car because of a single mistake after about 6h of race