whats the crack these days???

[Thargor]

hey guys.. i stumbled upon your forum while looking for something else but it got me thinking.
i used to race years ago in the 90's. i got a mardave meteor for one christmas (when they were competitive) and i used to race in horwich every sunday at bolton buggy club...we modded the mardave so much i think it was the quickest one in exsistance at one point with the original chassis and silver star speed controller!!!! haha. i moved on to schumachers and i think ive still got a cougar 2 works somewhere in the house. i stopped going and the club closed eventually. i had a spurt a bit later at 1/8th on road as they sounded nuts.. didnt last long and i went to uni and discovered booze and girls...
i was just wondering what is the equipment to have these days? and could my old schumacher even come close to the pace of the new 1/10th buggys?
things i can remember being good from when i used to race electric are:
13 double motors that used to pretty much melt most mid priced speed controllers
SCR nicads? i think they were the best battery's
ha, a futaba attack transmitter on 40mhz (it was dated then when i owned it)
schumacher yellow spot tyres
an oakley sticker on your back wing
slipper clutches were coming in
and i think the last car to come out i knew about was the cougar 2000

i was just wondering where the technology was at these days and if the races were still 5 mins or if technology had advanced so that you can run longer races? when i last raced the cars would run out of power crossing the line most of the time and the really quick 4wd's would not usually finish the race haha...

cheers for any info

steve.....