The 3 finals for a finalists and only 1 for everybody else is a case in point. Everybody should get the same amount of race time whether first or last. Why should the top 10 get an extra 2 finals to everybody else?
The homologation of batteries and motors puzzles me. I fully understand the need for minimum standards on batteries for safety purposes as there is a lot of potential energy stored in a battery which needs to be controlled, but there are a number of batteries on the market that are much more competitively priced than many of those on the brca list, and which are just as safe and still have very good performance, and which many of the club racers use in the region, but not allowed to run them at regionals because they are not on the list. I can understand the requirement for standards such as hard case, maximum voltage of 8.4v maximum sizes etc.
I don't understand the need for homologation for motors in a modified off road class. You can have as much power as you want these days, to much on most occasions for many racers, myself included. I can't see any safety implications of motors. The most expensive motors on the list can still short out as easy as those not on the list if not used properly. I fully understand the need for the rules in spec racing but in open modified?
Also if the homologation is about ensuring safe equipment then why aren't radio equipment and speed controllers homologated as well and also the design of some of the cars called into question. Lipos can soon be blown up by faults on speed controllers shorting them out, or pins coming out of driveshafts whether or not they are brca approved.
As to the region being a victim of its own success, unfortunately there are still not enough to make separate 2wd and 4wd events viable. It's not far off but still not quite there, and the sc trucks have proven to be a great draw as it has pulled in many drivers that would previously not have competed in either of the other classes without it. Plus they provide some of the best action going
I am disappointed that I cannot race alongside the likes of nathen waters and other top drivers that would normally race in a different region, to see how I compare and to be shown really how to do it. I know you can compare times but its really not the same, and the open class just drags the meeting out in my opinion.
I just don't see why a meeting has to be run to a certain set of rules when it works better running to another which has evolved very successfully over the last few years.
The current format has been working very well for the e of e for the last few years and many new racers have started and continued to compete and enjoy the way the meetings have been run. I don't see why it should be changed at this moment in time, by one or two people on a forum.
Hopefully the meeting on Monday will be a success and all of the racers have a good time, but for me the bickering puts a downer on it and makes me not want to attend the meeting. At the end of the day it's grown men playing with toy cars in a field. I don't take it to seriously, and I think races and meetings are spoilt when people do take it to seriously.