[jimmy]

I was talking solely about 10th off road modified - not Stock in Germany, we don't really have that over here. It's almost completely mod.

I did not complain - I thrust my opinion out there and invited discussion. I have nothing to complain about since I never race in any sanctioned races. I either race at club level or some one-off event. I don't care what lipo or motor or chassis is legal or not for myself. It's my opinion that it's not needed for this class of racing, the one I'm most involved with.
There's nothing more fair that modified - once you restrict the power people cheat. I didn't realise how widespread it was but I had a long conversation with a nameless chap last night who said their stock TC series was almost 'STOCK' now, because everyone knows how to cheat to the same level. Silly.
I never understood stock - it's a good theory but people will always want to be MORE EQUAL.

This is the future of the hobby as a whole, not my demands! I couldn't give a chuff what any sanctioning body does - they can insist everyone buy a purcy or that everyone use an LRP 2.5, whatever they do that isn't good will hurt the sport, what they do that is good will help the sport.
In regards to my initial post - I was clearly referring to the sillyness of some rules (TC's must have loads) and outdated nature of others. You must agree that there was never a level playing field with older technology and in specific reference to electric off road 10th buggies, the technology has taken care of things in terms of fair racing.

Will you see someone go to a big sanctioned event with a £10 lipo? probably not - so why even have a list. The list doesn't apply to regional and club level unless the organisers choose to use them. So you're only talking about national-level really.
I know of a person who ran an entire national season on clearly non-legal cells and it was never picked up on. Was it an unfair advantage? no, he had the option to have free cells that were good but not homologated. Did he cheat? technically yes, does anyone care? probably not. Why? because everyone already knows it's about as fair as it gets.

I'm not speaking in anger or bitterness when I say homologation never did the job of making things equal - you can ask any racer, or indeed yourself - you know the answer. Yes - it might have stopped some sneaky advancements but at the end of the day, the top guys had better stuff. 'Team Packs' are what they called the best rejects.
Now everyone uses lipo's - they're all the same, I mean, too fast!