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This class took me a bit longer than expected! The top two cars did half a dozen shake-down laps and then completed the 5 timed laps without incident. They were spectacular over the bumps, the Dune Buggy probably having the edge there and Oxo Cube's Touareg quicker on the flat bits. Paul's Touareg was certainly best of the rest, but required a longer shake-down and warm-up for me to get to grips with the car over the bumps.

   

The rest of the field were characterised by their inconsistency - and hence lots of unexpected offs. That's the nature of off-road racing. All had a thorough shake-down and warm-up - so what you see on the video is as good as I could manage with the car in the conditions. Most cars did best at a moderate speed, some a bit faster - and some nice and slow. Savage GT's Touareg was consistently unable to get round the corner obstacles at any speed!

   

I really enjoyed driving the variety of SCX off-road cars - thank you all for sending them in. And looks-wise, Hotlap's Peugeot 405 T16 is awesome!

Rose the cat made a brief appearance at the start of the SCX video - she is watching/sleeping from just behind the main camera.