Losing grip – The Miller lacks…
By now, nobody can have missed the best launch of the 12 months: RC4WD’s Miller Motorsports 1/10 Pro Rock Racer. In my thoughts, that is the perfect factor that has occurred in a very long time: somebody lastly taking the two.2″ rock crawler-racer recreation to the following stage. Amazing scale appears to be like, 2-speed transmission with selectable 2WD or 4WD, selectable entrance and rear differential lockers. Were it a hamburger in Australia, it will be known as The Works.
It’s straightforward to see folks taking this rig in lots of completely different instructions. Like: decrease. Perhaps a barely decrease stance to gear it extra in the direction of racing? Heck, with selectable rear wheel drive and a decrease stance, it might in all probability be drifted on free filth – I for one would love that! Drifting this one on snow coated ice in winter? Yes please!
Mind that drifting it will in all probability require a unique motor, adjusting the drag brake and a little bit of tweaking the shocks, contemplating chassis roll. I’m actually curious to see what sort of kV folks can be placing into this one, and what it is going to maintain as much as. Also, let’s hope for an aluminum trailing arm and axle upgrades coming.
Anyway, our overview will go into all the main points of what this rig has, so let me as a substitute contact upon what I discover actually fascinating: what it lacks.
Competition.
With lots of concentrate on small scale crawlers recently, the two.2″ rock racer discipline is just about open for taking. Losi presents the Hammer Rey, there’s the Gmade GOM, Cross RC has the Emo X. None of them hitting the candy spot in between racing and crawling. And Axial? They used to rule this recreation with their Bomber, Yeti and Wraith, all now discontinued. The Rift? Yes, they’ve received that one, however that’s a unique kettle of fish. If I had been Axial, I’d be tearing my hair out at this stage.
The Miller is just about a Bomber with all of the frills to be anticipated from a excessive finish rig in 2023. The Bomber suffers, for my part, from a barely too slender stance. Now that’s a very simple repair, however simply trying on the dimensions the Miller might need gotten that proper from the beginning, with a wheelbase of 354mm and width 299mm, in comparison with the Bomber’s longer and narrower 375mm and 292mm respectively.
Reviews will inform, however so far as I can see RC4WD has accomplished an excellent job exploiting a just about empty taking part in discipline, getting that aim in whereas Axial was trying the opposite approach. Good job! But let’s hope that Axial will get into the two.2″ recreation once more – I’m trying ahead to seeing their subsequent tackle it.
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