Northernbill, a point really well made.. It is often reposted as just drive better, but from my humble/limited experience, I would never have improved at the rate I have without having spent money and time on my car with the various hop ups, new lipos, batteries and motors.
It is all about the driving, but there is major advancements to a persons driving if the car has the ability to go around the track balanced.
I appreciate this is a class trying to steer away from people believing there needs to be money spent on the kit cars, if you want that class GT12 is not it in my opinion. The cars handle like turnips when they come out the box, "compared" to all the hop ups applied.
At the heart of racing is everyone wants to "compete", "get better" and one day "win" so its a product of the class where hops ups ARE available that make people spend the money on getting better. With this in mind, budgets come in to play but there is in my mind a very clear and concise way to getting your SSGT (because I have not had a zen) to a spec that will race really well and then and only then (in my opinion) do you sit back and race the car and get better at driving...
I expect a reply will come in the form of Mark Stiles could drive an out the box car bla bla, but I have many years of being a performance coach that will be able to justify why this is the case.. Not to go on.. but this is a little hobby, full of grown up kids that want a bit of fun...
Embrace the competition, and embrace the fact people want to get better and want to spend money along the way if they so choose...
Equally, I hope this is taken in the very positive and exciting light it is meant to be; because so far, I have had such fun with GT12. Long may it continue...
Off to Rayleigh RC Track this afternoon for some practice with my pals....
Over and out!
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