🏎️ Touring Car
A low, road-going race car body on a flat, on-road chassis — raced on smooth pavement or carpet tracks, not off-road.
What it actually does
A touring car is the four-wheel-drive on-road racer with a full saloon-style body — low, flat, and set up for asphalt or carpet. It is the format where setup matters most, because grip is high and consistent, so small changes show up clearly in lap times.
In practice
Almost all are 1/10 scale 4WD with belt or shaft drive, independent suspension and a lot of adjustment. Because the surface is smooth, ride heights are low, suspension is stiff, and things like camber, toe, sway bars and Ackermann all make a visible difference.
Worth knowing
Touring cars need a smooth surface. On rough tarmac or gravel the low ride height that makes them fast becomes the thing that stops them.
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What a free account actually does
RC Crash Crew remembers your RC so you don't have to. Every run, every battery cycle, every breakage and every fix — kept with the rig it happened to, for as long as you own it. No cost, no advert, no catch.
🏎️ Your garage — the part that works on day one
Build each rig properly: what motor, what ESC, what gearing, what tires. Then keep its whole history in one place.
- Run log — where, how long, how it went
- Battery health — cycles, puffing, when to retire it
- Component hours — what is worn out before it fails
- Setup sheets you can copy between rigs
- Radios and model memory
- Photos, kept with the rig
🔧 When it breaks — and it will
The bit people actually search for at 9pm with a broken car on the bench.
- Crash Bay — log the damage, see what other people broke
- Repair Desk — what you did, and whether it held
- Tune — symptom in, fix out, by chassis type
- RC AI that can see your own rigs and answer about them
📍 Where to run, and what is near you
Tracks, bash spots and hobby shops, on a map, across 28 countries.
- 505 run spots
- 370 hobby shops
- Race nights and events
- Add the ones we are missing — most towns are still blank
📚 Learn it properly, free, no sign-up needed
523 things explained — and none of it is a two-line stub.
- 25 full guides, averaging 1.450 words each
- 447 glossary terms
- A wiki any trusted member can correct
- 195 models and 142 parts on file
Straight with you: the site is new and the crew is small. The tools, the guides, the map and the 505 run spots are all here and working today — the people are what is still missing. If you want a garage that remembers everything, it works from your first run. If you want a busy forum, come back later, or be one of the reasons it gets busy.