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Nic Case with the R/C Bullet. Nic Case (born 1963) is an American radio-controlled model hobbyist from Southern California specializing in speedrunning.He is notable for becoming the first person to reach 200 mph (321.9 km/h) with his radio-controlled car, [1] the R/C Bullet, having surpassed his records three times with a confirmed entry at the Guinness World Records in 2008, 2013 and 2014.
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Brian Kinwald (October 6, 1973 – April 3, 2019) was an American professional radio control car driver. He was born in Huntington Beach, California and grew up riding competitive BMX. Brian competed in BMX through his early teenage years until switching to R/C racing at age 15. He lived in Tempe, Arizona.
Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, [1] are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio.. Nitro powered models use glow plug engines, small internal combustion engines fuelled by a special mixture of nitromethane, methanol, and oil (in most cases a blend of castor oil and synthetic oil).
1:10 scale radio-controlled car (Saab Sonett II)A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control (RC). All types of model vehicles have had RC systems installed in them, including ground vehicles, boats, planes, helicopters and even submarines and scale railway locomotives.
The International Federation of Model Auto Racing (IFMAR) is the world governing body of professional radio controlled car racing. The organization was created in 1979 by professional racer and RC model entrepreneur Ted Longshaw. At that time, many different governing bodies operated under their own rules throughout the world.
By the end of the 1980s, the buggy class single-handedly turned the radio-controlled car market into a multimillion-dollar business [53] but in 1990, Tamiya, a market leader in off-road cars; shifted their attention toward on-road cars [54] when in 1991, they adapted their Manta Ray's DF-01 [55] chassis to a Nissan Skyline GT-R NISMO bodyshell.
The Nikko R/C line contained an expansive number of vehicles that ranged from buggies, speed cars and off-road vehicles to boats, special action vehicles, and air flight. An early Nikko design was the F10 series frame buggy, a 1:10 scale two-wheel-drive dune buggy and sold both by Nikko and RadioShack. There were many versions of the Nikko F10.