Easton hard all weekend on his car. trying new setups. It's actually only the 2nd time it's been raced at a track. It's like taking any new rc car to a racing track it going to take time to make it fast you have to start somewhere and decide if oil is too soft, springs are too hard etc... a lot of pro's are actually on there own at rc races. Like Serpent there are smaller manufactures. That have very small race teams which it is harder to find race setups because only a handful of people run the car. with losi and associated they can call the 4 or 5 "paid" pro's for advice at a race or they can turn to one of the ten guys and ask the to try this shock oil.. etc but when you are only one guy at a race with only a couple guys running the car there is only so much you can do.