The basic design of the YR4 has almost been around as long as sedan racing's pioneer, the Tamiya TA01. In fact, it was Yokomo's answer to Tamiya's touring car, and had the same off-road pedigree of the Tamiya. It is praiseworthy that Yokomo had the foresight to jump on the sedan bandwagon right at the start, with something radically different from the TA01.

I have not run the YR4 in out of the box setup, so I cannot make any concrete comments as to its handling traits.

Driving notes: As this is the car that I use for organized racing, it's set up for more twitchy handling characteristics than for a car which I would use to just tootle around with. As such, the YR4 exhibits slight oversteer exiting corners. The 5 degree castor angle makes corner entry very composed. Despite the seemingly limited steering angle in the front wheels, the YR4 turns remarkably well, able to scoot around a hairpin quite easily. Driven carefully, this setup is very safe, I hardly had a single spin-out the last weekend I raced that wasn't caused by another car tipping my rear! Even in traffic, the car is very stable and does not get easily affected by contact. I can honestly say that the car's ability thus far, exceeds my human abilities to drive the chassis to the limit. However, I look upon as a challenge for me to improve my driving skills now that I have the goods to do a good job with.

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