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Originally Posted by alex97
Why not keep the current tracks but use controled slower motors. With everyone on the same speed level it should make the racing better.I know that this isn't an option that would work at every track.
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Originally Posted by cutting42
That is stock or blinky racing which is popular in the USA. There is a big thread on RC Tech about cheating on motors in the 17.5 stock racing scene. No clue if there is or isn't but I sure as hell don't want anything to do with any racing where cheating becomes a reality or even a possibility.
The beauty of mod motor is who cares what kit you have, its all down to skills and the best drivers come out on top and the heats make sure you are in a final appropriate to your skills.
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I have to say i'm in agreement with cutting42 on this. Growing up in the '80s, RC car racing was so expensive in relative terms that if you were a teenager you just couldn't afford to upgrade the car.
When I was 13 in 1987 I did everything the hobby industry told me to do, bought a kit/radio etc and built it in my room while all my mates were out getting p!ssed in bus shelters but thanks to Beatties being such a bunch of ripoff merchants no-one my age could afford the "ball bearings, CVA shock unit set and super hot RX540VZ (pronounced "vee-zee" for those who were there at the time) Technigold motor" shown in the Tamiya videos running in an endless loop from 9am until 5.30pm, and all our cars just got slower and slower as the silver can 540 motors wore out. How depressing. How dreary. How British.
This had a profound effect on me and I promised myself that one day i'd have an RC car with more power than I could possibly use. Consequently that's one of the main things that draws me to the hobby to this day, the fact that unlike in real life you can have a car with an absurd power-to-weight ratio and completely unrealistic (but fun) levels of performance and I want to keep it that way.
I'm not a crazy driver but I see plenty of people with more talent than me who are able to lap faster with less power so good luck to them, but trouser-fillingly fast is the way I like it, it's kind of like owning a CR500
without the inconvenience of hospital food