LOL ... you misunderstand me mate .... all I was trying to say is that the arrangement for the front end on all off roaders seems to be a straight copy of Losi's original design ... mainly because it's a really good solution for getting the steering pivot point in side the wheel and the bearings weight outside that point!
As for the "worlds" SP such as the one in your pic that is not what we are discussing here, we are discusssing the ZX5-SP release which is new suspension pieces for the standard chassis.
I persoanlly will never run the "worlds" configuration as the whole reason for ditching my BJ4WE and going to the Lazer was that it is the car furthest removed from the BJ4WE chassis layout I can get. IMHO the BJ4WE and all it's clones are not ideally suited to the sort of surfacs and tracks we race on in the UK. It may be absolutely dialed on the clay / dirt surfaces in the rest of the world but it doesn't work that well in the UK and certainly doesn't suit my driving style!!
You have to remember that on our national circuit there are NO dirt / clay tracks at all ... not even three corners in combination on dirt! We also keep our wheels on the ground much more than in the USA for example, most circuits only having one or two jump features and those are not normally blessed with proper landing ramps.
Those two points take away any advantage that the BJ4WE style cars may have and the high traction, high sidebite surfaces cause the rear suspension geometry of the BJ4 and clones to colapse on cornering .... not the quickest way around the track!
Now some people have got those cars working nicely, I have to admit that but they still suffer the rear end collapse to some extent which I personally don't like at all.
At the risk of being rude, which I don't mean to be, can we get back on topic to discussing the released version of the Lazer ZX5-SP .... the alternative to the BJ4WE style layout!
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