Track Report – Little Forest Raceway: New Plymouth, New Zealand

Who doesn’t love trucks! NZRCA’s truck class packs plenty of big wheel’d competition.

Little Forest Raceway – New Plymouth, NZ

Little Forest Raceway in New Plymouth, New Zealand “started life as a large rubbish pile” and was the home of this years New Zealand Radio Controlled Association’s (NZRCA) 1/10 Vintage EP Off-Road Nationals. The 65×52 track sits on 8 truckloads of packed clay in the rear of TBS Coating and is home to the Kaipara RC Car Club.

Weekly Vintage class gets a cool mix of vehicles.

The track runs Junior, 1/10 and 1/12 stock, 1/10 and 1/12 modified, and vintage classes on a weekly basis. For the NZRCA Vintage Nationals, classes were broken down further to include 2wd, 4wd and 2wd trucks that have a release date pre-1995, plastic chassis 2wd trucks with a release date of Pre 1995, 2wd and 4wd plastic chassis 2wd and 4wd buggies with a release date Pre 1989, and 1/10 and 1/12 scale Tamiya CW-01 class vehicles, the Lunchbox, Midnight Pumpkin, Unimog & Montero Wheelie.

On April 25^th and 26^th 2015 the Little Forest Raceway hosted the NZRCA 1/10 Vintage EP Off-Road Nationals and the club also hosts weekly club racing with over 30 members as well. With a great turn out for both vintage and normal racing, the Little Forest Raceway will continue to play an important role in the local and national vintage off-road scene in New Zealand. For more information, you can find it at littleforestraceway.co.nz and the NZRCA’s Facebook page.

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Photos courtesy of Little Forest Raceway and Amber May Kendall

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