robk

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I sit at the feet of the master...

CR0SS

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From what I see the only car that might have problems with the new rule is the Exotek F1R with the uni-crank steering system. The servo is in the way of a regular size lipo fitting.

The 22 with the mid motor conversion accepts saddle packs. I do not see how this rule makes the 22 chassis illegal.

WheelNut

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Should we do what is right for the manufacturers, or the racers? Seems like ROAR is siding with the racers.

tc3team

It makes me wonder if the BRCA are going to follow suit with this rule....

Team CRC

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It appears that this new rule is to prevent the design of a chassis that ONLY accepts a "special" or shorty pack. It appears from the wording and chatter on other forums, if the chassis accepts the standard "max" dimensions pack, it is legal.

The makes the CRC Gen-Xi completely legal in all configurations, shorty, inline and cross pack. For that matter, any other 1:12th car out now is legal with a 1s Shorty pack as well, each of these other chassis fit a full pack and therefore they are legal.

If a car is designed around a short pack and only a short pack, and serious modifications (dremel, drill) are needed to fit the standard pack, then this rule may come into effect.

sosidge

There are definite packaging advantages to using a shorty pack or even a 1/18th size pack.

ROAR seem to have kept the cat in the bag before most of us realised there was a cat in there.

Considering the mess that 1/10th scale has got itself into with motors and ESCs in "stock" class, I'd suggest that stopping the "custom pack" war before it has a chance to get started is a Good Thing.

Buckaroo

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Even if such a rule were to sitffle growth and development in the area of chassis design and drivetrain arrangement?

Could I please have my house and car back, there's this nice cave and horse I would trade you!

If you spec a max, by definition you must also spec a min. To do otherwise in the technology turnover/development culture that we've enjoyed since the late 70's, and especially in the lat 10 years, is just plain silly. Without a min spec, you de facto leave it open to what's possible, and by omission in the rules set HAVE to accept it as legal until or unless such rules set is ammended.

Such a min/max, though comes with the responsibility to review annually based on what's possible, fairly and impartially. That last bit is something that ROAR has struggled with.

The helicopter and airplane community has firmly embraced the current tech, and look how it's prospered because of that simple fact!

The simple fact is that ROAR and the racing community is going to have to learn to grow progressively with technology as bushless motors get lighter, more powerful and effecient, batteries get smaller and achieve a higher energy density, and ESCs get more sophisticated.

Writing exclusive rules once the genie is out of the bottle is not a sign of good leadership, or even good stewardship in a rules body. Re: the ongoing push to eleminate boost and flashable ESCs. Shorty lipo rules are headed down that very same road!

It's a dim view and VERY sad commentary on ROAR if they think or write rules because of the belief that people are lemmings. In any case, it's been the human way to always want what's new, regardless of wether it's good or appropriate. Who is ROAR to decide how I or anyone else is going to spend our money for any given product, or for that matter, how any company is going to spend it's R&D, production, and marketing money? Just because a car/battery/motor is NEW doesn't somehow make anything that anyone purchased yesterday SLOW or unable to win. Heck, people are still winning races with batteries, motors, and chassis that are several years old. Look at all the new batteries, motors, and chassis that are fresh and have yet to win(substantively) and have basically faded into the background with all the other stuff in the catalog.

There will always be people with more money, there will always be people with more brains, and there will always be people with more money than brains. Caveat emptor.

The collective ostrich needs to pull it's head out of the sand.

If that doesn't happen, we risk advancing in lurching leaps(again)......just like we did getting from round cells and brushed motors to lipo and brushless. The most recent trend by the racing community to what's possible with current technology has NOT made it go away, or made racing any cheaper, nor made it more accessable to more people.

That alone should be the object lesson and a textbook example of "What not to do".

sosidge

I'd rather pit in a cave and race horse-and-carts against 40 other people than live in a spaceship and race a new shape of battery every week against 4.

Buckaroo

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...but you'd still argue over the breed of the horse, weight of the cart, and size of the wheel. And if that didn't get you anywhere, you'd argue over what the horse was fed the night before and start examining poop! Maybe you're racing with the wrong people.
All I'm saying is that you can't stuff the genie back in the bottle, and you shouldn't be so naive as to believe that technology won't progress, with or without us!

If anything, rules bodies like ROAR should be on the forefront of exploring what is possible and working within the manufacturing community to foster such growth, not locking the form/fit/function of 2011 technology into a 1975 vision of what things should be. If ROAR can't figure out how to do this, then it's time for new leadership within or without ROAR.

Exclusion tactis only make it more difficult and expensive to adapt once it's accepted that the roll of the tide can no longer be resisted. By that time, it's too late to spec anything other than what's already on the market. The recent history of the adaptation of brushless, lipo, and flashable ESCs proves this out. Instead, ROAR should be helping to direct the development of said market for the BENEFIT of the racer and the race communtiy.

I'm looking for leadership from ROAR et al on what SHOULD be develped and made legal, not maintaining the status quo for the next decade.

sosidge

I think perhaps you are racing with the wrong people. The people I race with don't have an issue with the general principle of rules, do their best within them, and enjoy the racing.

You seem intent on finding an advantage by extending the rules in a manner that is not needed.

The cars we race are a certain size and use components that are a certain size to power them. Despite your assertions, the rules serve to keep costs down and make the class accessible to many.

If you don't like it, create another class, don't whinge about how backwards this class is. I suspect you will be racing in a class of one.

Buckaroo

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Ha , you're funny! You know nothing about me. I'm the one always wanting the rules to be clear, specific, and iron clad at my local club. ROAR eFF'd up by omitting min specs in a world where everything gets lighter, more powerful, and faster by orders of magnitude several times a year (smart phones, for example). That was, at best, naive.

All I want is for ROAR to acknowledge that development MUST happen to further the hobby, AND LEAVE A DOOR OPEN for it, if they're not simply going to actually do something smart like (gasp) LEAD the hobby into the future through targeted development. Instead, they keep abdicating that responsibility to the the fertile minds of the market and more creative racers.

If they keep slamming closed doors, ESPECIALLY doors that they left open (either through intent or through negligence), we're going to find ourselves in 2015 wondering why we haven't apapted smart phone blue tooth updateable small esc controlled 4 pole 380 motors and small lipo batteries that are more powerful and offer longer run times than our current 540 motors and huge lipos. And we're going to be wondering why the new stuff is cheaper than our old stuff, too! That's just the way ROAR 'lead' us through the change over from brushed/round cell to brushless/lipo.

In this instance, someone has simply done what ROAR left open to be done...made a battery that fits the needs of the race, and made a chassis that can take advantage of said battery in an overall package that shows that the current state of development has stagnated....and ROAR has moved to ban this line of development in all classes.

More than 5 years ago the flight community started working with manufacturers to scope the parameters of what they needed for burshless and lipo. They now enjoy reliable, fast, maintenance free products at significantly cheaper prices per performance factor than cars do, mostly because they continue to embrace smaller, faster, lighter.

We should be, too, in steps beter incremented than wholesale shifts in paradigm.

Sooner or later, we're going to get smacked in the face with smaller, lighter batteries, smaller and lighter and more powerful motors, and better cars. Here's the point you're ignoring....ROAR and all the other sanctioning bodies should be on the forefront of helping to develope this TO CONTROL COSTS and PROPAGATE TECHNOLOGY before our currrent purpose bulit mousetraps become outdated and more expensive because tech has passed us by, which it's currently poised to do as evidenced by every segment of the tech that we currently use.

If they have no plans to do as I've stated, they're again going to be directly responsible for the delay in wholesale adaptation and development of cheap, easy to use products for the racing community.

sosidge

I do my best.

True. Although your earlier posts implied you knew something about me, which is a surprise.

Murray

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So is the attached legal??

MatsNorway

this. I read it as presented on tech inspection on raceday.


CG would have been better too. Low batteries is next due to these rules.

Hvordan gikk det i Vegas?

MatsNorway

Not how i read this.

Must be able to fit a maximum sized battery or a template with the max dimentions as most batteries would be within that limit.

If they had a Limit on the chassie from factory they would need to outlaw every homemade car or give them a advantage due to the chassie being what ever the maker says it is.