Wes Handy posts first laps on the 3Racing Auper D5, then adds rear camber
A 57-view shakedown clip from Prodigy RC is one of the first pieces of community footage of 3Racing's Auper D5 in motion. What the post confirms, and what it leaves open.
The post
A shakedown clip, not a review
On October 11, Wes Handy posted a clip titled "3Racing Auper D5 Cinnamon first laps at Prodigy RC" to his YouTube channel. The video is up here, and at the time the metrics were pulled it sat at 57 views, 7 likes and 3 comments.
That is a small number, and it is also the reason the clip is worth flagging. Early community footage of a chassis in motion tends to arrive before any of it is written up, and a first-laps video from a driver the maker sent a car to is a specific kind of document: it tells you a car exists, runs, and is being shaken down in public.
Handy credits 3Racing for sending the car and writes that it drives well as delivered. He also says what changed immediately after the camera stopped.
“This thing drives so good right out of the box”
Context
Where the Auper D5 sits in 3Racing's drift line
3Racing is a Hong Kong maker whose Sakura drift family runs from the front-motor Sakura D3 CS, through the D4 in AWD and RWD forms, into the D5 group — the D5S, the midship D5 MR and the AuperD5 — and on to the newer RWD Sakura D6 and the top-of-line AuperD6, which take three motor positions and three kinds of gearbox.
The Auper D5 in Handy's clip is the one carrying the Cinnamon name in his title. Beyond the family placement above, the material here does not include a spec sheet, so the motor position, gearbox and drivetrain details of this particular car are not confirmed in this piece.
One more thing the post does not settle: whether the car arrived as a kit to build or assembled. "Out of the box" is Handy's phrase for how it drove, not a stated product format.
The rear camber line is the interesting part
The sentence most worth reading twice is the follow-up: Handy writes that he added some rear camber after the video and is looking forward to dialing the car in further.
Rear camber is a geometry change — how far the tops of the rear wheels lean in or out relative to vertical — and on a 1/10 RWD drift car it is one of the first things a driver touches once the car has run, because it changes how the rear tires sit against the surface through transitions and how the car behaves when it is loaded in a long arc. It is not a fix, it is a preference, and it only means something alongside the tire and the floor it is running on.
That is exactly what the post leaves out. It does not give the camber figure, it does not name the tires, and it does not say what Prodigy RC's surface is on the night. Nothing in the clip's description names a gyro, a motor, an ESC or an FDR either. So the honest read is this: a driver ran a new chassis, liked the baseline enough to say so publicly, and made a rear geometry change before the second session. Anyone treating that as a setup recommendation is building on air.
Where to watch
The clip is public on Wes Handy's channel: 3Racing Auper D5 Cinnamon first laps at Prodigy RC. It runs under his own credit and hashtags, including #3Racing and #AuperD5.
3Racing's current drift chassis listings are on the maker's own storefront, in its drift collection. No price for the Auper D5 appears in the material here, so none is quoted.
Sources
Reference links used for this piece. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.
- 1.3Racing Auper D5 Cinnamon first laps at Prodigy RC W/ Wes Handy
Wes Handy on YouTube커뮤니티
Primary source. Title, description, and metrics (57 views, 7 likes, 3 comments) captured via YouTube API, 2026-10-11. Embed-and-credit policy.
- 2.3Racing drift collection
3Racing공식
Maker storefront. Store answers scripts with a Cloudflare challenge, so listings were not fully read; no Auper D5 price taken from it.
- 3.Sakura D5S introduction
3Racing공식
Used only for placing the D5 family; no Auper D5 specs drawn from it.
- 4.3Racing Sakura D6S drift chassis
Drift Mission커뮤니티
Background on the newer D6 line referenced in the family overview.
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