James you know how much of a Lazer fan I am, but at least I know it's faults. The old ZX-R was the greatest club racers car but not the most competitive at the top end. That would make the ZX-5 the perfect replacement, especially for the money.
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Originally Posted by Welshy40
mmmm schumacher making a new 4wd, buggy maybe, well maybe they should scrap all the junk they made since the last great buggy they made, the bosscat, and the cars that followed were pretty poor and badly designed.
Sorry but its a fact. The Cat had an awful front end and yes it wasnt a very strong car. Yes it made the basildon worlds A and yes Ben Sturnham made 2nd (Kevin Moore was really 3rd) but still not a good design. Great drivers make the As with bricks. Well Ben was a great driver as he managed to beat Brian Kinwald with a schumacher crappy designed 2wd at the Bristish Grand Prix not long after the worlds, (unsure if it was 1995 but wasnt 93 as kinwald raced a pred in 4wd) which wasnt designed well in the first place.
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1993 Worlds, A final. 3 Schumacher CAT 2000s qualified 2,3 and 6. One Lazer ZX-R qualified 10th. CATs finished 2,3,4. Lazer finished 9th. I would class that a great result for Schumacher.
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Great drivers make the As with bricks.
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As the Lazer was driven by Joel Johnson who qualified on pole in 2wd and only just got the Lazer in the A from your statement would you not class that as the brick?
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The design team needs to wake up and look properly at the opposition and design something new and fresh and not copy bits from all the other manufacturers, but design a proper racer like the XLS, and improve it properly like the Bosscat.
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Well as loads of the manufacturers have now copied the two CAT 3000 chassis and transmission layouts surely the others have copied Schumacher? Schumacher designed the original CAT for Andy Dobson then spent 3 years developing a car other racers could drive, then took 4 years to get to the Bosscat. The CAT 200 was a fresh design that worked well from the start.