While I spent some time with the car on carpet, and was really happy about its performance – for me FF racing has always been more about outdoors on tarmac. With the special spring and summer of 2020, I have perhaps spent even more time than normal on FF tarmac testing, and I have really enjoyed my time with the R11F.

To start with, I spent a bit of time doing back-to-back tests with my TRF FF project car, but soon discovered that the F11F was both slightly faster and more consistent. This was no big surprise, as the special TRF car was already old and badly in need of some development, and a complete rebuild with new parts. Still, I was already really convinced by the R11F.

The rest of the summer, up until now, was spent trying various things on the car – from many different placements of the battery and electronics and weights, to some special parts, and quite a bit of general setup experiments.

After all this, I have to say that the R11F is one of the few cars, throughout the 25+ years that I have been driving RC cars, that always works, is always easy to drive, logical and consistent, forgiving but fast in all conditions. That’s very rare for any car!

This is where I’m with the car now – see last image for setup (PDF by clicking image).

I settled on this battery position, helped by the light (160g) Muchmore batteries that I run, and the new ARC R12 battery holders that allowed me to move the battery in all the way. Also very convenient with the tapeless battery mount.