Thank you! It would be great to meet you on the lakebed this year.

RIP indeed. Jesse was an amazing person.

DTR is no longer as of 2019. We finished our first race in 2016 and then chased the finish line for the next few years.

John is a good friend. When he relocated to CA from FL, his first trail run in CA was with us. He broke a front axle shaft on the gatekeeper of the John Bull trail in Big Bear, CA and still ran the entire trail without so much as a tug. Pretty sure that's when he caught the rock crawling bug. We all had a good time with lots of friendly competition between us.

Front and rear were chopped off and tube frame added.

The details of the sponsorship cannot be disclosed haha. But they had a pretty big part in getting us into the race.

ectosports I wish they would sponsor a serious RC race there sometime during the week there in KOJ JV.

@@chrisstrobel3439 maybe this year. Watch for detials coming.

ectosports Ahh cool! Actually I think they should do the whole 165 mile, etc. course in Ultra 4 RC’s, that would require the fitness of ultra elite endurance runners and athletes .. which would pretty much rule out anybody I’ve ever known in the 1:1 crawling world 😬 Would make for quite the show as you tune in week after week to see their progress 😬 lol. Anyway assuming Biden doesn’t shut down America next year for Covid .. I look forward to going to 2021 KOH as a 1:1 spectator, and RC enthusiast, and wish you the best 👍

Thanks much. We are really proud of the memory.

It was not much of a Rubicon to begin with. The original axles were already upgraded 44's but we knew the rig needed 60's. So the old axles were sold.

Gary johns The Turtle is with a new owner and team. They modified it to carry two spares this year. 😉

Jason Mejia You’re wrong. It absolutely did.

@@rbukacek idk man it seems shady... especially the way that was edited... must be the worlds best insta flat then lol what brand was the tire patch you should do a brand deal haha cool video none the less

Jason Mejia They were tire plugs. Sidewalk had a gash in it from hitting a rock. It’s not uncommon at all to use a handful of plugs to seal a sidewall tear. You can believe it or not. Makes no difference to me.

@@rbukacek Ripley's

@@spacejaysun hahaha... Since I am the one that plugged the tire, I can raise my hand and swear. If there was ever an opportunity to endorse a plug company this would be the best. It took seven plus to fill the hole and hold air. I had no faith it was going to work but it did.

BG GALVAN so bummed there wasn’t more backstory about the Axial DTR RC. First RC car to complete the EMC!

The Catalyst It was stock 5.3l from a 2002 Silverado with a 4L60 trans. Magnaflow did our exhaust which is why it sounds so great. Gears were 5.38’s if I remember correctly. Honestly, it had barely enough power and I was amazed the motor lasted the race. The Turtle tipped the scales at over 5k lbs. Shes a pig. The reason we finished was because we had to go slow and run our own race.

Nibiru3064 Our guess is that it was John and his crew at Proving Grounds Racing.

xd gangster69 It depends. At our level, they’re not going to just give us anything we want but some sponsors are happy to throw a few parts your way when you’re competing and displaying their name on your rig.