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Originally Posted by RogerM
Stark reality is that the guys who will fill the top 10 places tomorrow will be there or there about with whatever they use and equally I'm not going to be causing them much trouble with whatever I use.
Run what you like, when you like and only worry about driving it the best that you can as trust me, if you are getting your car around for a full race at a consistent and solid pace you'll be as close as you are ever going to be to competing with the superstars!
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Edited because it didn't need to be said again but how true is this. I don't think any of us need 3 cars, sure the team drivers might have 3 cars but they're probably not paying for them out of their own pockets, that's why they're sponsored and the manufacturers will be throwing things at them, why ? Because it makes people who "think" they need another car go out and spend money.
As was said earlier these people are in business to make money not run a charity. It does seem a pity we can't get one car to work on every surface but similarly all of our tracks are different, even astro to astro is different that's why it's so difficult.
F1 and Moto GP all run on tarmac, they don't have the amount of different surfaces we do, so Vettel only has one chassis as does Rossi, however they are infinitely adjustable to pamper for their racing needs. The 8th rally cross chassis's have a huge amount of adjustability too, there is only one chassis per manufacturer there but with constant improvement through the year and a host of new shock towers, chassis's and other "better" parts coming out all year long until the new year when it's all put onto the car and launched as a MkII.
The fact a lot of people are converting their 4WD's to 2WD just means it's another excuse for manufacturers to bring out more cars.
As the quote I opened this with said, it probably won't make a lot of difference to any standard sunday club racer so perhaps people are worrying about this a touch too much. If you don't want to spend extra money on a new chassis don't, there's no point in whining about it, just don't spend it. Out of 3 chassis's there are a lot of manufacturing and packaging costs, if one of these chassis's isn't selling it won't stay in production long so then there will be 2, and eventually I'm sure we'll all come full circle and there will only be 1 chassis again. It's just another "current trend" which has everyone up on their soap boxes.