Crickey, leave a thread alone for a few minutes and...
From my selfish personal perspective the rules talked about sound good, but how about scale shells encouraged but not necessarily enforced? Speaking entirely selfishly as pointed out earlier I do have that green touring shell that was sent by mistake when I ordered a red AE86 shell. It hasn't got any cracks and I would hate to have to put it away. Ideally I'd like to get some good use out of it before swapping for my as yet unpainted Camaro shell which is far more scale looking.
As for the other rules I agree with the point made about silvercan or brushless equivalent. It should be both, in a class that's supposed to be budget people shouldn't be forced to go out and buy a tonne of new kit. The Blackfoot example given in jest is amusingly good in my opinion, if someone turns up with a Black Foot or a Traxxas Grave Digger I see no reason for me to object. Martin did race that Twin Detonator and caused no carnage... I don't know about others, but I like the extreme variety, it isn't often that you see a twin motor monster truck go against an m-chassis, a Mardave and an F104. That's part of what makes Clubman cool.
Let's be honest, so far the class has been incredibly freaking close. Closer than classes that have stricter rules. So my main thought going into the Monday meeting is that we should try and make sure we don't go over the top introducing too many rules for Clubman to solve a problem that doesn't exist just because of what was said on Oople once.
PS: To prove that point I'll happily do a round of off road and I am pretty sure that driving my fastest I'll still be 3 to 4 laps slower that the top guys and my buggy isn't slow. When I didn't race Clubman I used to be close to Martin and Chris, and guess what... In Clubman I am also close to Martin and Chris. It isn't the cars...
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