Conny Svensson

Large Scale is the real thing, everything else is just a toy!

I'm a 50 year old Racer. 5y ago update
I'm an avid Large Scale Offroad fan, but practices 1/10 offroad during winter to calm my RC needs. I've won the Swedish Large Scale Cup six times in a row, this is a close as we come to a national championship in Sweden.

I love to build and make my own solutions as much as I like to compete and race. I really enjoy all type of RC and have crawlers, drones, a motorcycle and helicopters. The only thing missing is a plane…

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#1 emoji_events RCBash 2025 #3 - Nyköping 2025-07-05 4wd
#1 emoji_events RCBash 2025 #2 - Sviestad 2025-05-31 4wd
#1 emoji_events RCBash 2025 #1 - Halmstad 2025-05-03 4wd
#2 emoji_events RCBash 2024 #5 (Final) - Norrköping 2024-08-31 4wd
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RCBash 2025 #5 - Norrköping Final 2025-09-06 4wd
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RCBash 2025 #4 - Slottsbron

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EFRA EC Large Scale Offroad 2025 - Fehring

2025-07-21 4wd

RCBash 2025 #3 - Nyköping

2025-07-05 4wd
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Atsushi Hara's 2008 IFMAR World Championship Winning Hot Bodies D8 Buggy

Video 35d ago Event Reports Vintage

Tiny cars, big stakes: These remote control racers aren’t hobbyists. They’re pros

Web link 59d ago Blogs English
  • Like NASCAR racers, but on a much smaller scale, drivers of RC cars make a living through wins and endorsements.
  • Some pro racers got their start as teenagers.

The neon yellow race car whipped around the corner, gunning it in a bid to lose the dragster on its tail.

Mistiming a turn, it ricocheted off a dirt mound and landed on its back, swaying side to side, like an overturned beetle.

Just then, a marshal scrambled onto the track, flipped the car over and relaunched it through his legs. But such are the benefits of servicing cars the size of toasters.

Vintage RC car manuals, catalogs, decals & other documents

Web link 136d ago Documents Vintage

5 Spoke Films RC Car Nitro Racing 2005 Do It In The Dirt Volume 1

Video 153d ago Vintage
RC Car Racing from the peak of 1/8 Nitro Buggy Truggy and Monster Truck RC Racing. RC Pro Series West footage Round 1 to 4. Interview With Advantage Racing Products, Jammin X1-CRT Truggy Review, Silver State Nitro Challenge Boulder City Nevada, Sun Valley KZ Speedway California, A-Main Raceway Canby Oregon The Dirt Racepark Hemet California, Lancer Lanes Clarkston Washington

RC-boomen i Sverige

Web link 185d ago News Swedish
Hur kunde radiostyrda bilar utvecklas till en hobby som mer eller mindre formade en hel generation? Allt om Hobbys mångårige skribent, Niclas Sjöqvist, har fördjupat sig i hur det gick till när en mäktig RC-våg en gång sköljde över Sverige. Från begynnelsen med 1970-talets pionjärer som såg potentialen i en fjärrstyrd framtid, till storhetstiden under 1990-talet då radiostyrda modeller syntes på tv, i tidningar och på bioduken.

Innovative cantilever design

Post 189d ago
Not content to just install some lightweight upgrades and off-the-shelf tuning parts, Alex Krieg decided to customize his Team Associated B7 by designing and 3D printing an entirely new cantilever suspension.

Goodbye NRP Ultron, and thanks for all the wins!

Post 198d ago Blogs
Three successful years with the NRP Ultron has come to an end. I started racing with the Ultron in 2022, before that my weapon of choice was the heavily modified TPR 5ive-X. But due to lack of development of the Losi platform I choose to move on and the choice fell on the Ultron. I immidiately fell in love with how easy and agile it was to drive and how well it handled our bumpy tracks in Sweden. I started the season really well with three wins in the Swedish Large Scale Cup. I choose to drive the 5ive-X in the Battle of the Nordics to save the car for the Euros. Unfortunately I had all type of problems at the Euros and that is probably the only race that caused me troubles with the car. Coming back home to Sweden I finished with a win and a second place to win the cup for the fourth time in a row. I topped of the season with a win in the autumn at a standalone race.

In 2023 I started on the back foot with engine problems but managed to salvage a second place, the rest of the 3 races I managed to take all wins. That year I unfortunately couldn't attend the final race of the season but managed to secure the cup regardless as we allow one drop race and the result was so good in the rest of the races.

Last year in 2024 I started with 2 wins directly but had a DNF in the final of the third race in Nyköping with a broken servo arm. But up until then I had 29(!) straight heat wins which was quite amazing and a solid proof of the Ultron's consistency. Again I had to make one drop race but attended the final race of the season where I ended in second place in Norrköping. At all the other tracks I felt like I had it all in my own hands and sometimes winning with a good margin but in Norrköping I couldn't match the pace of the winner. This was at a Astro track and I think that is the only weak point for the Ultron.
But the second place secured my sixth straight win in the Swedish Cup. Something I'm very proud of but also can thank the reliability and performance of the Ultron.

In total the Ultron brought me 3 cup wins, 10 race wins and 3 second places. That's pretty solid results for a car.

For this year (2025) I will be driving the Rival, the successor of the Ultron. I have very high hopes for this revolutionary platform as it delivers many inventions that I will think will raise the bar once again. Low center of gravity and low weight as well as a much easier layout to work on with only two sorts of screws. I'm very much looking forward to get my hands on the Rival when it arrives and take it for the first run. I'm also looking forward to bring it to Fehring once more for the Euros. Hopefully this will be a different story than last time with the Ultron.

In the end I want to thank NRP for bringing the Ultron to market but also to continuously develop and push the platform forward during those years. Lets take the next leap with the Rival!

Thank you Ultron for these years, you will be missed but not forgotten!

Radio gaga: the wild and wonderful world of RC racing

Web link 237d ago Blogs
Radio-controlled car racing could be among the best motorsport you will find in the UK
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I have loved to tinker with technology my whole life, so when my dad asked me if I wanted to check out a local RC car club in the 80’s I was of course all in. I went directly to the hobby store to buy a Tamiya Grasshopper. I moved up pretty quickly to a Kyosho Turbo Scorpion. That was a much better contender at the local club races I started to enjoy and compete pretty successfully. Me and my dad, who was a Volvo chassis engineer, started to modify the car for better handling. We did a complete conversion with our own chassis with a very special construction where the CG was below the roll axis, this made the car lean inward in the curves, pretty cool. When the Shumacher Cat made it’s debut I fell in love. What an engineering marvel, and it had just won the worlds driven by Masami Hirosaka. This was my main car for many years and I won many club races as well as national and had some good podium finishes in the Nordic Championships. 

I raced and competed for about 10 years with always smart driving but a tight budget which made me have not the best equipment in a time where NiCd batteries and brushed motors barely lasted for 5 minutes.

The USA Years

I moved to San Francisco between 1998 and 2006. I was in the early twenties up to the thirties. I hadn’t driven an RC car for maybe 7-8 years when I stumbled upon a local RC club in San Rafael. I tested a couple of laps and the guys asked me if I wanted to compete the coming weekend. I said I had not car or hadn’t driven in a while. I got to borrow some used stuff and ended up in second place. But I didn’t have the time to focus on racing but kept it on a fun level and played around with some Losi Mini-T at the local hobby shop and made a track in the backyard.

The Current Time

Always keeping up with what was happening in the RC scene browsing websites and watching YouTube. One day I stumbled upon a video showing Large Scale cars in my own home town. Wow, this was something different! I went to the next race and asked around what was available on the market, what brands, 2wd or 4wd. I quickly got attached to the Losi 5ive-T truck. This was in 2014. This was soo much fun. I went to a bash meet up and raced their in a sandy track. Hadn’t driven on a track for maybe 10 years I was competing with the fastest guy with a standard 26cc 5ive-T. Not the fastest or best acceleration but I knew how to find the best lines and not do any mistakes. Being a buggy guy I sold my 5ive-T and bought the 5ive-B on the same day I first saw it. And it was a kit, I love building cars. This was when I started modifying my car again. Large Scale makes it easier to fabricate stuff. The first year I competed in the RCBash Cup (the unofficial nationals in Sweden) I ended up second in total just one point behind the winner because I had to drop out of one of the races and couldn’t finish in one final due to broken servo. This was with a standard 5ive-B with a 29cc Zenoah but with some small improvements to the car but pretty much original. The year after I upgraded the chassis with some after market parts and put in an ESP 30.5 to compete better in torque. Winning 3 out of 4 races, and finished second in the fourth, I managed to grab the total win in the cup 2018. 

I also competed in the Euros in the summer of 2018 in Austria. This was my first bigger race in LSOR. Unfortunately I had all the bad luck you could think of. Burnt electronics, lost a wheelnut, my pipe broke, I broke my engine, my airfilter fell of. I never have any problems normally, I’m very careful going thru my car between heats, I smooth driving style usually not making any big mistakes causing crashes. The Euros were for 6 days and my best experience yet even if I had all these problems. I met so many great people, it’s really a big family out there!  

I’m also driving 1/8 scale electric (TLR 8ight-XE) to keep up practice during winter time. This helps immensely with my Large Scale driving, makes me faster and more consistent. I’m also practicing using VRC, the RC simulator on PC. It’s actually pretty good and realistic feeling.

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