The thing is.. it's Tamiya.. a lot of what they do caters for their own home market in Japan, where there are loads of race series for this spec of car - I'm told that basically the "Tamiya Eurocup" type rules are commonplace in Japanese club & tournament racing & Tamiya & Kyosho dominate the japanese RC market, then of course they ship the cars worldwide because they know kids & newbies will go bonkers for them in the states & in Europe & that helps keep costs down with mass production - problem is we are paying for the shipping costs as well.
In Japan though for racing remember they still use silvercans & run on stickpack cells... if you really wanted to you could buy a Japanese spec TRF (such as a 415 or 501x) & it will be engineered to run on 6-cell 7.2 stick packs, with the car's chassis & bulkheads cut to suit stickpacks... which is handy if you wanted to run LiPo i suppose as it's basically a block & should drop straight in, unlike the faffing you have to do to find a LiPo that will fit into the TRF415MSX chassis tray & slot under the rear bulkhead.
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