How was your rookie year?

Sent my first cars to Ricks Diecast Racing  almost a year ago today.  And have been building and shipping every since. Some of my early builds at have not ran.at such places as top 3 turvy   And I'm almost dreading watching because my builds have improved since I sent them.  I've had a couple podium finishes but no first place yet.  Trail and error a lot of time and $ but well worth it in my opinion!

 Currently working on building a track. Progress is slow but it's getting there. And hopefully I can figure out how to video, edit and get on utube. 
  Looking forward to another several years. 
 Most expensive $1 car racing in the world!

 ABR (alway be racing)  see ya on the track

Holy waaah.  I just looked back at my records. I've only been at it 6 months and have already sent out 26 cars with 3 more about to hit the mail.  Seems like a year already! But my first race was June 1st. 

So far I'm doing ok. Learning a lot with each build and race. I managed a pair of 3rds in my first 7 races and my most recent cars are considerably faster.  Like RaginRicky said,  I hate to see some those cars I sent out months ago even run. Because I know their much slower than what I'm building now. Half of the cars I've sent out haven't even run yet.

Looking back at my Youtube channel,  I build my track 9 months ago and since then I've rebuilt it 3 times.  I've also put out almost 50 videos.  So yes...I'm obviously enjoying the hell out this hobby.  And I still can't believe its been less than a year.  By the time I hit the end of year 1 I'll also have hosted a race.

Much appreciation to all the great people on this site and in the hobby.  What a great bunch of people to share a hobby with!  See you in lanes!   Z

I've flipped over in a high turn twice, I can tell I needed more weight in my old Nascar Hornet. Amazing how you start to disect your performance of your cars. My other car DNF'd 2x's. but hardly any cars finished the race. I am still trying to find my other race. All in all I performed shitty and I love this hobby! This year I will learn about axels and I'm working on a car basically doing body work. However I noticed you can't touch a Ferrarri for under $25. In real life I can't afford gas for a Ferrarri. I hope to be in a lot more races this year.

Well my rookie year ended in March and it was in March 2024 that I went and bought my first few hot wheels I had ever owned. And like many others here I got into all of this by watching in amazement at channels like 3DBotmaker and other similar channels. But I knew I was hooked when my little Volkswagen beetle made it to the bottom of Jungle Falls on its first run. In fact, I think I was even in first place in that first race and that was all it took.

As a retired engineer, I rolled up my sleeves and got out of fresh lab notebook and begin to figure out how the hell to go fast. And of course, this site was super helpful in having a lot of information. it's just scattered across many many pages and articles. And of course, the help and comments of many fellow racers.

And ever so slowly, I begin to accumulate cars and more cars and then I begin to collect cars. Holy crap I have a lot of cars. And I am certainly very fortunate that my wife looks on at all this with the amusement and support. Which is helpful when you discover that between January and the end of March Ive blown a fair amount of money on more cars and a deluxe airbrush set up. Hoo boy I sort of went a little crazy.

For me, every car is a engineering project and an art project and working in the shop on these is a huge distraction from the craziness going on in the world and even in my family. And then racing against all of you on various awesome tracks is a total gas no matter win lose or rolled over on my top --- it’s a gas gas gas as The Rolling Stones would say.

We've been through some traumatic times recently in both our families and I don't see that stopping for a while yet. But as I said, this is a great distraction, and I am looking forward to rebuilding my track soon and doing some you-pick races and then some real mail in racing at some point on a new expanded racetrack, And finally, I am like super stoked to be in a race at the great dunes up against the Bot Maker Boys. It's an epic end to my rookie year.

Thanks for everything. I look forward to seeing all of you on the track where we can lay it all down and have a good laugh at the end. 

My rookie year was amazing! I've had a ton of fun with my new(ish) hobby. I've shown that I'm more adept at picking cars than to making them fast, but I've been experimenting, and who knows! Maybe one day I'll get more than 10 points. I hope to race ya'll on the track soon!

In progress...TBD

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