Some time during the 1990's we had a class for Schumacher Wild cats with touring car bodies.
I dont think very many people here will recognise a wildcat but it was built from two yellow vertical plastic panels spaced apart with plastic rods. There was no diff, just a solid driveshaft and hard rubber tires.
There was no suspension or damping just red glass fiber wishbones that flexed in the turns. I tried to google a picture but I couldnt find one.
The rules of the class were that it had to be raced as out of the box with no upgrades (except bearings) so that meant manual 3 speed mechanical speed controls and standard no grip tires.
With the super flexible chassis, no diff and manual speed control this made this "beginners" class much more difficult than any other. There was no way you could "predict" when the car would spin you just had to learn what the limit was and drive just below it.
Some experienced racers tried to race in this class and gave up as it was so frustrating. I think that electronic ESC may have been allowed later into the series as with the manual one it was too hard.
Although it was very hard to drive racing the wildcat for an indoor series made me a much better driver.
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