I find that being able to have two different cars driven at one meeting signed on by one driver is the problem, wet car and a dry car as for on road and low and high grip configuration for off road.
if when you sign on you elect which car you are driving was the norm then by the law of averages the most useable car would become the norm.
I am talking about racing out side and on Astro, if you are inside or on dirt then it would be forward or rear motor.
The biggest trouble with this trend is that what was a competitive cheap hobby is becoming to specialised a chassis for this a chassis for that, and we all know where that leads to is, higher cost = less drivers = less clubs = no hobby
Other sections are seeing their numbers drop partly due to travel cost and price of kits and engines, for once why does the governing not say two chassis designs one rear and one mid, that uses the same gear box rotated for rear or mid e.g Tlr 22, dex210, sv2 etc.
We must be the only motor sport that is governed by the manufactures and not by our elected committees as to what we drive and where our sport goes, I am not against progress and development, it seems since we now have motors that never ware out and batteries that have more power than ever before servos and radios that work with out interference the rear, mid, forward chassis is a easy way to keep us buying stuff.
For example a typical father and son want to go racing so to buy two chassis kits £640.00
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Last edited by CARB; 14-12-2014 at 01:05 PM.
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