Buckyaga

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you may talk crap about this class, but until you try it, its a lot of fun

lol

wingracer

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1. To be covered and able to race.

2. Some tracks have their own insurance, some have none and wing it. I saw a mans leg ripped wide open when he slipped on the steps of the drivers stand. It was a one off parking lot race so no insurance. Thankfully it was a ROAR race so he was covered.

3. What have you done for ROAR lately? ROAR is not some tyrannical dictatorship. It is made up of racers voted in by the members. If you want something changed, run for office and change it or vote for someone that will. If you think your vote doesn't count look at the voting results. Many of them are 5-4 votes. Get enough buddies to vote for you and you could be in charge.

If you still just can't stand ROAR then don't join. Stay at your little local track and have a blast. I'm sure we will all miss you at the Nats or the Worlds but we will get over it.

wingracer

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I'm not running that until they approve either brushless motors or go nitro.

Bermbuster

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The timing for Lipo approval was all business....It gave sub c cell suppliers
a chance to sell out there inventory and then restock w approved lipos....
In the big picture it worked out well for everybody. Suppliers didnt lose money and we have lipos at a decent price....

crazy4wdracer

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The attachment says it all.

Metla

Yep, Quite aware that commercial and political factors all play a part in the process.

Hell, Here in NZ everyone is still fighting Lipo.....

kdeselms

In any competitive sport, there needs to be a governing body that dictates what the rules are, to ensure fair play. It may be a little inconvenient on race day to have things slowed down by a tech process, but what's the alternative? Anything goes? Cats and Dogs living together, mass hysteria!

There isn't a sport on earth that doesn't have rules. ROAR creates and enforces them on a national level, among the many other things they do (those have already been mentioned in this thread). They could probably be more efficient or organized in what they do, but ROAR - or something like it - needs to exist in order for RC racing to grow and prosper...it could get a LOT bigger than it currently is, but only with guidance.

skypilot

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first, lots of B.S. and just plain bad info being said on this thread about roar and other things

second,


ASK NOT,,,, what ROAR can do for you, BUT, rather, what can you do to help improve ROAR.

if you don't like roar, don't join. if you don't like roar, don't complain, turn the computer off, get off your lazy ass, run for office and make a change for the better. either that or just keep making posts about how roar sucks and never do anything to improve it. its your choice,

and thats all i have say about that.

C_O_jones

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Well at the Offroad Electric Nats it was more bad that good.

The $80 entry fee for the first class was way to high, especially when you add in the cost of a Lipo Sack THAT you had to use or be thown out, so I bought one for $30 only to be told that the lipo sack rule was waved for that one race at the track!
After all the noise about safety, and how the rule would be strictly enforced they toss it, bull!

Rules came and went, lipo sack, no triple A's for masters, no triple A's for any class that did not fill 2 full heats, that would have left Stock Truck, with only 18 entries, out, so to give stock truck a triple A they had to give in and give Masters a triple A too.
3 motor rule, that got changed late in the event, what effect did that have in Quals for those that conserved motors only to have a last minute RULE change?
Class secific motors, I couldn't use the same 10.5 motor for Masters and for the Demo class, J82, even though they are both 10.5 motor classes, I ran the same T4 for both.

And Yes, I am a ROAR member, one of the 17 in Region 11 that voted in the last election.

ROAR has had 2 Nats prior to work out the tech and rules for this year, they should have been more organized.

Hot Rod Hobbies had their act togther for this race and my THANKS to Jimmy and his crew!

wyd

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ROAR gave us a woman president.

C_O_jones

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No, the members voted her in.
Dawn was a write in candidate, and IF you were a member and voted, you would know that

skypilot

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go get em fred..

wyd

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No matter how you slice it we still have a woman being president of ROAR.

Wild Cherry

Sucker !!!!

BSS07

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i signed up for a year membership at pitstop and the guy said i should get somthing in the mail or through email.......never showed up