I think Mikey, some of it comes down to racing snobbery, ie; your "dumb truck" comment. Not that you probably meant anything by that since I doubt you've driven a truggy or any derivative of large wheeled vehicle.
I have though, Monster and truggy, and buggy, in ic and electric, raced and bashed, and from my experience, bashers love trucks AND buggies, racers just love buggies and ic ones at that as they see electric ones as "fake", or a bit of a joke.
Which is a shame really as this is where I might upset a few people. Basically, in some cases, racers have become so blinkered by what they perceive an rc car to be that when a variant or new class comes out, it gets shouted down, slated and left out. People will follow the crowd and if snob club only races buggies then joe blogs isn't going to buy something different as he'll get told by snob club that his truggy/e eighth/sc/stadium truck isn't supported, so "normal" fare is bought and off he goes and follows everyone else.
I bash too, I have an AE mgt truck, it has big wheels, it runs on 6s, and is an absolute hoot.
I would support e eighth, it deserves to grow. Like what has been mentioned previously also, as places get more and more built up, people are not going to want to listen to 14 2 strokes revving up on a start line on a sunday, so they complain, council listens, closes club for noise pollution, the racers bitch and moan, another club gone.
We see it often don't we!
If only we could be more broad minded. The hobby can still grow, there IS room.
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