I used to race 1/10th scale electric buggies many years ago when I was considerably younger, and I’ve had the recent urge to take it up again. There’s probably something Freudian/physiological in that somewhere about attempting to recapture my youth now that I’ve passed three-zero etc. etc.

Anyway, building the car, and talking to some of the racers at the R/C club in Hertfordshire that I plan to attend, made me realise how much of an R/C racing n00b I really am. Talk of brushed or brushless motors, LIPO or NiMh cells, what chargers to use, car makes and models, 19 turn, double-wound this and 2.4GHz transponder that, left me feeling well out of my depth. The...