FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Ten years of the Psycho Nitro Blast

0 April 7, 2017, 12:39 p.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

Everybody knows that Friday is meant for reminiscing old times. Each week we take you back in time as we flashback to some of R/C racing's greatest moments, products, drivers, and more!

Flashback: 2008

Ten years of crazy - the Psycho Nitro Blast

For the last ten years, the Psycho Nitro Blast has combined round-the-clock on-track action, incredibly challenging temporary courses built inside horse large horse arenas, and some of the fastest off-road racers on the planet to build its reputation as one of the biggest - and certainly most interesting - racing events in the South as well as the entire country.

Oh, and they’ve all been horror-themed. The event’s founders, Dave Leikam and Oliver Aspinwall, were co-owners of a haunted house in Georgia before starting the Psycho Nitro Blast back in 2008.

From 2009 through 2014, the Psycho Nitro Blast featured a jump contest - which started out as a world record attempt, but quickly morphed into a rocket-powered stunt fest.

The track layouts have always been complicated, with extreme features that tax man and machine.

Here are the designs for PNBI-IX:

The various sections receive crazy names like “Shock Therapy,” “Overdose” and “Dirty Needle” - and provide a sponsorship opportunity. This is the track this year:

Instead of being tired, terrified and traumatized, everyone has a great time.

After the first year of the Psycho Nitro Blast, each successive chapter of the annual event received a different name. Here are the race flyers from 2009-2017:

The Psycho Nitro Blast crew will be operating a camera feed for this weekend’s race, so you can tune in live for streaming video as well as updated scoring and results. Click here to join the action:
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