Track Day One
Charge both batteries the night before — session one dies without this. Lay out the cone course from the diagram (a lazy oval with one chicane; resist making it hard), then set the truck’s training mode to half throttle and don’t apologize for it: “every real track has a rookie speed.” Trade five-minute stints, driver and spotter, and let the early laps be chaos — cones are foam for a reason. Last fifteen minutes: official time trials, three laps each, best lap in the log book with the date. You go first and make sure your time is honest — they will beat it sooner than you think, and it has to have been real when they do. Truck gets wiped down and parked on a shelf, not in a toy bin. Next weekend: first teardown — wheels off, see inside.