Double Edge Racing

21/04/2026

This past Sunday, the ROAR Off Road Carpet Nationals happened at Maximus RC Raceway in Seabrook, NH. While no Double Edge Racing folks competed, it was a great time. Hats off to the whole crew and non-profit board that run the place, the ROAR folks who ran a smooth program, and to all the racers. Here's a little video from Hobbywing's Charlie about the location and event. Check it out!

Join us for a quick visit to the 2026 ROAR Carpet Off Road Nationals from Maximum RC in Seabrook NH. This club operated facility hosted the Nats, and did a...

20/10/2025

It has been a good month for Double Edge Racing's David with the Tekno RC vehicle stable.

At the end of Sept, there was the Watkins Training Facility original track BBQ potluck event. The true loose dirt track had a great layout that held up while also developing a lot of personality, as a true off road track should. Dave would put on a show with owner Richard Watkins in eTruggy, but make the fatal mistake to drop out of the battle and concede the win. 4wd SC would be a great race and drive, but also only picking up second, after starting at the back thanks to an inverted start (random coin flip if this happens for the main or not), and not being able to catch Steve Roundy. Baby truggy would net a win for Dave after an early battle with WTF's own Justin Pierce. Lastly, eBuggy would net a win after starting mid grid and some amazing battles throughout the field, as anybody in the main could've won. Awesome chill hang out vibes all around while still enjoying and pushing the competition, as RC should be.

Next up was the Fall Flannel event at Hobby Etc, with a fresh track layout that is a master class in "don't send it, be smooth". Starting from the end, a great battle with Warren Campbell in eTruggy would have Dave take the lead for the majority of the race, but end up needing hero laps to make a pass at the end...which he spun out instead, settling for 2nd. In eBuggy, Dave would TQ and battle with all the top folks until it just shut off and kept going straight off the end of the straight. Later examination showed a short from a wire that got pinched, but ended Dave's part in a GREAT battle that was going on. In 4wd SC, Dave would hold off returning rival Joe Medynski to take the win from the TQ spot. In baby truggy, the battle would again be with Justin, but this time a marshal would drop another vehicle in front of Dave while at speed and the lead, causing a wreck that let Justin by. Dave would push it, and similar to full size truggy, make the mistakes that kept him from battling for the win. A very well run event at a great small track and fully stocked hobby shop.

Lastly in this trifecta was the New England National Championship event at Dynamic Performance R/C - DPRC, complete with JTP RC running clinics on Wed/Thurs before the event and LiveRC.com coverage. Dave participated in the Wed clinic and was reminded of a bunch of things here and there, and would definitely suggest it to others. The track was done by none other than TheDirt Racing, and had a lot of flow and grip once it grooved up instead of being frosted (literally). For the event, things went relatively well for qualifying with the outlier being eTruggy, where a major mistake in each run settled Dave into the B Main. Dave was able to assist in some behind the scenes ways, such as helping set up mains on the computer, and also got to pour RC knowledge into several knowledge sponge people who are getting faster as quickly as they're learning. For the mains, Dave's eBuggy luck would continue. Starting 4th, a quick jump up on the first few corners would end with a mistake on the triple, ending upside down. The marshal would see the car, step out, wait for the other cars...several of which who crashed closer to the marshal...flip the other cars, and walk back to their spot. Dave was still upside down. After they noticed, Dave would get on his way and move up through the pack quickly for a couple laps, but end up with a marshal stepping in front of his car full throttle in the sweeper to pick up other cars that were being driven around to pick up more spots. After that dead stop, and getting going again, a car ran through the back of the eBuggy, locking up a rear shock with a bent shock shaft. So Dave pulled off rather than get in people's way and ruin others' race. In 4wd SC and mini truggy Dave would TQ and win after some good competition from Steve Roundy and Chris Eldridge, topping out with a 98.13% consistency in 4wd SC. In eTruggy, Dave would drive conservative, knowing the raw speed was there to bump from the B to the A and just not wanting to make the mistakes from number 2 on the grid behind the continued speed growth of Mason Montminy. Dave would have 1st for roughly the first half of the race, but after an incident of a lapper not moving, the focus wasn't there and many mistakes followed. In the end, the always quick and steady Joe LaPlant would take the B Main win with Mason in the 2nd bump spot and Dave in third, fuming about said lapper while going out to marshal. While it certainly was a factor, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Dave remembered it when he went back to watch the video, proving that the heat of the moment can get all of us, and often our own worst enemy on the track is what we're saying in our own heads. This is a first class facility with a hobby shop that has good selection and is sure to attract more travel racers in the future for big events.

Now that Dave is finally starting to feel like the rust is almost off from his driving skill, the outdoor season is just about at an end for New England. Maybe the rust will get knocked off sooner next year.

Thanks to the sponsors that help Dave make all this happen: Tekno RC for the durable and performant vehicles, SMC Racing for the power to send it, Sanwa for the connected control, and Hobby Etc for everything a hobby enthusiast needs.

Special thanks to: the family for supporting the passion of racing, Tebo for sharing space and chatter, all the track owners/crew/RDs for busting their butts making the tracks SWEET, all the racers for the great competition, Kevin McNeil (I think) who posted the truggy action shot from Hobby Etc that I snagged, and Jesus Christ for his saving grace to be a better person than would otherwise be here with you.

06/08/2025

This past weekend, Double Edge Racing's David went up to the King of the Mountain race at Dynamic Performance R/C - DPRC in VT. It would be the first trophy race out since the ROAR Racing 8th scale nationals, thanks to respiratory issues from all the tire gluing and saucing at that race. The last time up to DPRC, ages ago, the track had been super high grip black groove and bar type tires, but with everything being dry and some track changes, it was a clay dust top layer that had a lot of give and slip, despite some ruts and high traction spots. This kept things interesting and made driving smoothly, hitting your marks, and picking your line more important than usual. The marque feature of the event was a huge mountain jump in the back...and the secret sauce was that if you backflipped it during your qualifying run, and landed it to continue your lap, you got a bonus lap for that qual run. As is somewhat common, Dave also ran is mouth on the mic announcing some of the races.

Dave expected to run 5 classes with his Tekno RC fleet: eTruggy, 40+ eBuggy, 4wd SCT, 10th truggy, and 10th 4wd buggy. Unfortunately, there weren't quite enough buggies for that class to run, so 4 classes it was. The expected tire of choice was to be the JConcepts Inc Reflex, green in the morning/night and blue during the day. That was how truggy went, but on the buggy the new Raw Speed Inc Triad in Super Soft Long Wear was used through it all after wearing out the green Reflexes brought during the practice day. The Triads had the advantage of not caring what the temp was, nor if the track was recently watered or had dry pre-dust grip.

In 10th truggy and 4wd SCT, Dave would TQ each round, followed by some good competitive racing and a win, even racking up a 97% consistency in 4wd SC with the SCT410SL. Those were both done on M4 Hole Shots due to not having JC Sprinters on hand, which would've likely been slightly better, despite the dust layer.

In eTruggy, qual 1 would be great and consistent to secure a 3rd place spot on the grid after leading the qual for part of it. Qual 2 would start out quick but a costly mistake happened...so it was crowd pleasing time. After several attempts without getting the flip action, just super jump height, the backflip finally happened and landed. The time given up trying it, and the mistake, barely got 2nd on the grid...and the repeated lawn darts from 50ft up into hard flat clay made the truck sound really funny. Thankfully, these are Tekno tough, so all it needed was the center driveshaft straightened out. After putting some pressure on Tekno teammate Daniel for a short bit, Dave succumbed to the pressure of the high speed Tekno teammate Mike. After slipping back to 6th from overdriving mistakes, a heads down and grind approach got Dave back into 3rd for the final podium spot, and a Tekno 1-2-3 sweep!

In 40+ eBuggy, solid runs would land Dave 2nd on the grid. After a short breakout of the top few drivers, pressure was applied to first place and a mistake capitalized on to get into first, which would never be relinquished.

There was even a one race return by Lisa after 7 years of no driving to take 3rd on the podium in the Women's class!

Combined with Tekno Teammates and Tekno owners, Tekno was able to take home the top spot in almost all of the classes, from nitro buggy down through the 10th scales.

One of the big highlights of the event though, was a young gentleman who was REALLY excited about racing, and trying to win one of the top trophies...a GOAT trophy. Not only were they the GOAT of enthusiasm and racing excitement, but they also won the biggest race of all...beating cancer. In the end, Dave won 3 of the GOAT trophies, and had to make sure this would happen, presenting one of them amidst the rest of the podium presentations.

Special thanks to those who volunteered time to work on the track, the many folks who took time to chat, those who got and gave advice, the teammates, the smoothly run program, all the racers, the facility, the family for supporting the passion of racing, and Jesus Christ for his saving grace!

Thanks to the sponsors that make this possible: Tekno RC for the performant (and DURABLE) vehicles, SMC Racing for the power to send it, Sanwa for the connected control, and Hobby Etc for having everything a racer needs.

We hope to see you all on the track again soon!

24/06/2025

This past week was one of the big ones...the ROAR 8th Scale Nationals, held at ThornHill Racing Circuit in Hutto, TX. The track was hard and technical, but VERY fun to drive. Unfortunately, despite the traction conditions being familiar from old Cali Sugar tracks, this was not a great showing for Dave. Everything was looking good on arrival, but quickly turned into a hack fest...not on the track, but of lungs, from all the tire glue and sauce...which is still occurring as this is being written. With plenty of medication it was mostly contained, but concentration definitely suffered, which was super important to have on all the precise jumps and angles. It would've been nice to spend more time with all the Tekno teammates that were there, but everybody was HAMMERED for time. For most, every round was a new set of tires, a full change of diff fluids as the track got grippier, and new shock oil as it was hotter. There was no time between anything with 3 classes running during the first portion of the event. Through the week the cars felt better, but Dave's times didn't improve much while others did. This was partly due to sticking with already glued tires that didn't need to be sauced, vs continually gluing up tires and saucing them like everybody else. At the end of qualifying, it was the bottom third instead of the targeted top third that would be the starting points. In both mains, Dave would move up through the rounds, getting into or close to, a top 5 before slipping back places, but ending higher than started. The ET48, which had been amazing the day prior, really needed an extra 50 or 100 cst in the shocks to account for the heat, though it seemed as it would've been the same. The breeze from the day prior wasn't there though, making the track area a lot warmer. It also became the landing pad of several other truggies, enough early on that the sensor wire was shredded and at one point the truck did a double front flip off of the triple as a result of the cogging. The buggy was good, but really needed a bit higher diffs to push it, and had a tire choice error. Worn down tires were always better, but the lower main was chaotic enough that dust was constantly put onto the main line from the edges, so even on the line tread was really needed...and they had all worn off. Definitely not the results, nor the experience that was desired. The facility was great, the small shop was well stocked with things people needed, ROAR was communicative through the event and adjusted the schedule due to feedback, and honestly it was all awesome besides the health issue. Congrats to everybody involved, and to the AMAZING show put on by RM and DP in both nitro classes, coming down to the very end with passes and pressure. Thanks to the sponsors that make it possible for Dave to do these sorts of races: Tekno RC, SMC Racing, Hobby Etc, and Sanwa. Of course, the biggest thanks to Dave's family for supporting the passion of racing, and to Jesus Christ for his saving grace.

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09/04/2025

Psycho Nitro Blast was back to its usual self this year, including the wall ride, big track, 24/7 track time, and loads of people and excitement. Joining the Tekno RC pros in the pits, along with some media personalities and fast upcoming talent was a blast. Knocking the rust off proved to be the difficult part, but mostly worked itself out by the end. However, there was something about the color green this year. Green car coming down the wall ride backwards full throttle to bend a shock shaft during a round's warmup (retired their car instantly though), a green truck deciding I had to stay behind it, despite them crashing me twice on the same lap and still being caught back up to, a green car being set down sideways in front of me by the marshal in the rhythm section, having a marshal jump in front of the buggy while airborne, etc... It didn't really make a big difference in the end though. Qualifiers showed the rust, racing showed the chaos. Started from up front and fell back horribly with truggy in the main, but survived the early chaos in both buggy runs to pick up spots, at one point getting up to what would've been a bump spot had a stupid crash not happened. On track performance was perhaps worse than it should've been, especially with the pace shown with the buggy, but not unexpected due to the rust of not racing since outdoor season and thus not being consistent. Thankfully all the equipment, including the trusty SMC Racing batteries were still perfect from the end. The most important task at hand though was networking and supporting the team, especially the local up and coming Daniel Sedler (pictured). Extremely proud of him for stepping it up and battling paid pros in open eTruggy all race long! Thanks to all the sponsors that make this possible, to the family for supporting the passion of racing, the new and old friends met at the track, and of course Jesus Christ for His saving grace.

Now to restock at Hobby Etc and get some track time as tracks open and have local events (though we just had more snow), then on to CRC's Rumble in Rome and then ROAR Racing Nationals in TX.

16/09/2024

Last weekend, Double Edge Racing's David went out to the annual NH State Championship race at Hobby Etc, and ran Tekno RC's full 5 classes of mayhem. The tight and technical track did not disappoint this year, along with the amazing breadth of talent and hospitality. The track started in pure groomed fashion, but quickly developed its own personality that changed dramatically through the event, from dampness, temperature, shade, and varied dirt and clay surfaces throughout. It was a truly worthy challenge for the NH State Championship event. Dave would end up with a 1st, a 3rd, and 3x 2nd place finishes.

In eTruggy, Dave would run into an issue during qualifying, with a wire coming undone. Some quick soldering work by teammate Daniel "Danimal" Sedler thankfully made short work of it as he'd brought his iron. There was also the nose stand trick that even healthy throttle didn't get out of. Dave was able to put in a solid but not flying qual 2 to sit 2nd on the grid at the start. After some good early battles and pressure all around, he was able to pull out to a lead and maintain it with high consistency to take home the win.

In eBuggy, the day was mostly trying to find the right tire combination, a line that didn't do weird things when pushing the car hard, and some suspension trials. In the end, the right suspension was back to the box stock shocks, and the right tire ended up being the JConcepts Inc Recon. Photos of Dave showing how NOT to do the back section behind the tree, and how it should be done. This let Dave move up a bunch and challenge for the lead before settling into 2nd spot behind Danimal...until driver error struck on the last lap, giving up the position to take 3rd. Congrats to Tekno teammate Daniel Sedler on the victory!

In 4wd SC, the truck basically wasn't touched and was good all day. Tires should've been changed out for the final to not catch ruts as hard, with several rollovers during the race. A lead was taken, but conservative driving to not roll over let Steve Roundy catch up and battle for much of the late race. A mistake let him by for the lead, and despite some hero lap efforts, rollovers would prevent more than catching up to crash again, netting Dave a 2nd. Congrats to Steve and his Tekno SCT410v2.0 for a near flawless run under pressure to take down the win!

In mini truggy, a solid TQ and break out start would turn into a constant battle with Wesley Knapp after a marshal dropped a lap car on top of Dave while he was well out in the lead to bring them close. Dave would then make the mistake that let him by. Some challenges were made, but a 2nd place was taken here as well.

In 4wd Buggy, Dave would put in good qual runs to start 2nd on the grid. Despite some good charges and some battles with Colin Doherty, Dave's pace just wasn't quite there to challenge for the win. 2nd would be taken here as well.

Thanks to the sponsors that make this racing possible: Tekno RC, SMC Racing, Sanwa, and Hobby Etc. Also special thanks to the family for supporting the passion of racing, Danimal for the pit company and teamwork, Kevin McNeil for the track action photos, and Jesus Christ for His saving grace.

12/09/2024

This report is a bit overdue, but while Worlds kicks off, we're taking a trip down memory lane to 2 weekends ago and the ROAR Racing 8th scale and 4wd SCT National Championships held in PA this year.

Double Edge Racing's David would do what he always does, even for eNats, and run a Tekno RC vehicle in every class: eTruggy, eBuggy, 4wd SCT, and the support class of 10th scale mini truggy. Garland Smith Jr. hosted at GSRC, and put on a clinic in track prep and recovery every day. Weather was horrific to him, pouring rain during evenings and nights throughout the event. But he and his track crew were extremely dedicated and out before dawn each day, giving us a surface that made sense to race on, even if it couldn't be the same as the day before. The track went from damp clay to becoming slippery and polished to ending up the higher traction groove that everybody had expected by the mains.

The eTruggy is always good everywhere, just throw it down and run. Dave made big errors with it in all the practice and quals escept the last qual, trying to step up his speed until it was only time to make sure he could make it into the B main. Starting at the back, a more sensible drive got up into an extended podium spot, but ended up 6th. Going slightly thicker in the shocks would've probably been slightly better on main day as the heat had come up, but the truck was still good throughout. No changes made except to go to "the tire" for big races, the JConcepts Inc Reflex.

The eBuggy was the most interesting, as Dave has often struggled with it at major races, but had quickly managed to find a comfortable setup with the EB48 2.2 on the home tracks. It was reasonably ok during early practice, but as grip and heat came up, it got worse and worse very quickly. Instead of chasing everything, Dave popped on the VRP shocks from his old 2.1 buggy, and suddenly everything was good again. The setup was good otherwise, but probably needed the Tekno 6 hole drilled shocks for the surface that Dave didn't have, so the VRPs worked out. After doing so, the results improved dramatically. This got a qualifying spot at the back of the B main. During the main, Dave would get about half way up the pack after a bunch of folks wrecked, but then give most of it back by getting it wrong himself. In the end, it was a solid run that moved forward from the qualifying position, and especially good for Dave with buggy at a big event.

Mini Truggy was really all about making mistakes. Running TQ pace for the first 3/4 of most quals, to make a bad crash and give it up, would put Dave 2nd on the grid. A couple changes to widen the front of the vehicle and make it easier to drive, let the pace get picked up a bit in the mains. A quick pass and opponent mistake put Dave in the lead for a bit more than half of the main, but Dave's big mistake was to avoid all risk and expect another crash out of a hard driving opponent, so didn't pace himself fast enough while out front. The last several laps would be a flat out dog fight as a result, with some back and forth, but a last triple attempt not working out for Dave, to get him caught at the line in 2nd.

This brings us to 4wd SC where in past eNats when the top pros were running 4wd SC, Dave made the back of the A, and was BQ last time, but ran a race that would've put him 5th in the A. The goal this time was to get into the A again...until the pros weren't running it. Dave quickly became the truck to beat and took TQ. Unfortunately, the JConcepts Inc F250 body had finally had enough and wasn't going to keep running, and they haven't been in production for a long time now. The new body doesn't jump anywhere near as well, so cornering and consistency were the name of the game. Starting TQ, the JConcepts Inc Sprinters would be the tire ticket on the grooved up track. While not running the fastest laps during the main, Dave would run much more consistent. The triple was possible when there wasn't wind (which was picking up during the race), as was a more aggressive line through the front 7 pack. But they proved not to be needed and the wisdom of simply keeping the truck on the ground and out of the wind won the day. Dave is the latest 4wd SCT ROAR National Champion!

The last competition was Concourse. Dave has a nicely done body by Rich Watkins for the 4wd SC to match the others, but it has been saved for a new truck build that didn't manage to get finished for eNats. So the existing "flying banana" fade scheme was on a body, and then a last minute remembrance of needing lights and a grill brought out the sharpies. Joe Bornhorst did this ages ago to one of Dave's ET48.3 bodies for a prior ROAR eNats, which gave Dave the idea. After doing the lights and a grill, and realizing he didn't have stickers, the sharpies got more of a workout. Highlight lines were put into place, a Jesus fish, and the Tekno block logo was put on the hood. Thinking this would be a mockery of the concourse competition, Dave left it in the pits. But after some requests to bring it out, he did...and it won 2nd place due to the uniqueness of the design.

Thanks to all the sponsors who make this possible: Tekno RC for the durable and performant vehicles, SMC Racing for the power to send it, Sanwa for the connected control, Hobby Etc for getting any random part desired.

Special thanks also to: Team Tekin Racing who are used as the power plant of choice in the 8th scale fleet, JConcepts Inc for basically always having the right tire to run, Garland Smith Jr. and his whole track crew for making the event possible as well as for his generosity to have the event support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Sedlers (and Pauli) and Andrew Bishop for the great pit company, Alan Placer for the unexpected hospitality and place to crash instead of the tent, the family for supporting the passion of racing, and Jesus Christ for His saving grace.