Doing Away With Boosted....
#166
Tech Champion
well being in the Tropical love Island...I see why...but f you have to travel to the inland states for an event..make it the(plug)
2012 US VTA+ Southern Nationals in Music City, USA...Sept 21-23rd, where we have VTA,GT,TC, and 12th Scale....
and make this trip and Ill personally pay for your hotel stay for the weekend...BOOM!!!
2012 US VTA+ Southern Nationals in Music City, USA...Sept 21-23rd, where we have VTA,GT,TC, and 12th Scale....
and make this trip and Ill personally pay for your hotel stay for the weekend...BOOM!!!
#168
All I care about is going faster then the 8 other guys I am racing against, whether it be in blinky, boosted, modified, oval, mini, I don't care... Racing shouldn't always have to be about outright speed, but beating the other guys on track.
#169
well being in the Tropical love Island...I see why...but f you have to travel to the inland states for an event..make it the(plug)
2012 US VTA+ Southern Nationals in Music City, USA...Sept 21-23rd, where we have VTA,GT,TC, and 12th Scale....
and make this trip and Ill personally pay for your hotel stay for the weekend...BOOM!!!
2012 US VTA+ Southern Nationals in Music City, USA...Sept 21-23rd, where we have VTA,GT,TC, and 12th Scale....
and make this trip and Ill personally pay for your hotel stay for the weekend...BOOM!!!
#171
#172
Tech Master
iTrader: (31)
I think it'd be great to get away from having specific boosted, blinky, and mod classes. Just run all mod and separate by body/wheel style (VTA, RCGT, etc.) I mean, who doesn't want to go fast? I know I do. The amount of rules created to slow cars down is surprising (to me, at least). I understand that a fast car is harder for a beginner to drive but no one is saying they have to drive it that fast, gearing, endpoints, expo, etc. can all be used to tune down a car and make it easier to drive. Less classes, meaning more people in fewer classes, will lead to A, B, C, and lower mains. When you have that many people racing together you invariably end up racing people the same speed as you. Part of the problem might be that some people need to come to terms with the fact that not everyone can be in the A-Main.
A class that's really picked up around here is the 1/8th GT electric. I believe some factors of its success are the openness of the rules. Any motor, battery, and ESC is allowed. We really only regulate the body, wheels, and drive-line. The other factors contributing to its success are it's a big car that looks closer to a real car when you drive it. Scale speed is slower, they have more body roll in the turns, and you get a lot of tire squeal. Plus, they are just as easy to drive (if not easier) and fit just fine on a 10th scale track.
Sorry I went a little off topic there
A class that's really picked up around here is the 1/8th GT electric. I believe some factors of its success are the openness of the rules. Any motor, battery, and ESC is allowed. We really only regulate the body, wheels, and drive-line. The other factors contributing to its success are it's a big car that looks closer to a real car when you drive it. Scale speed is slower, they have more body roll in the turns, and you get a lot of tire squeal. Plus, they are just as easy to drive (if not easier) and fit just fine on a 10th scale track.
Sorry I went a little off topic there
#173
Perhaps its the 200.00 ofna chassis or the 250 esc motor combo from castle, or perhaps the ONE set of sweep Premounts that lasted all year ,or the one lipo I used, but yea, sure do enjoy me some gt8 action.
#174
Tech Master
I don't want to run mod or boosted because of the speed. Too many broken parts. Ok in a perfect world everyone could handle their car and no one would get into anyone else but this is rc. Wrecks will happen and not all of them will be your own fault. At least with slower speeds I can drive away from most of them.
#175
Tech Master
iTrader: (31)
I don't want to run mod or boosted because of the speed. Too many broken parts. Ok in a perfect world everyone could handle their car and no one would get into anyone else but this is rc. Wrecks will happen and not all of them will be your own fault. At least with slower speeds I can drive away from most of them.
What would be ideal is if manufactures started making their cars a little beefier to handle all the power that can be thrown at them, but I won't hold my breath on that one.
#178
Tech Master
I think the manufacturers try to balance between durability and light weight. You can get a very durable chassis but it weighs too much to perform properly. Lighter parts break easier.
#180
Tech Fanatic
I think it'd be great to get away from having specific boosted, blinky, and mod classes. Just run all mod and separate by body/wheel style (VTA, RCGT, etc.) I mean, who doesn't want to go fast? I know I do. The amount of rules created to slow cars down is surprising (to me, at least). I understand that a fast car is harder for a beginner to drive but no one is saying they have to drive it that fast, gearing, endpoints, expo, etc. can all be used to tune down a car and make it easier to drive. Less classes, meaning more people in fewer classes, will lead to A, B, C, and lower mains. When you have that many people racing together you invariably end up racing people the same speed as you. Part of the problem might be that some people need to come to terms with the fact that not everyone can be in the A-Main.
A class that's really picked up around here is the 1/8th GT electric. I believe some factors of its success are the openness of the rules. Any motor, battery, and ESC is allowed. We really only regulate the body, wheels, and drive-line. The other factors contributing to its success are it's a big car that looks closer to a real car when you drive it. Scale speed is slower, they have more body roll in the turns, and you get a lot of tire squeal. Plus, they are just as easy to drive (if not easier) and fit just fine on a 10th scale track.
Sorry I went a little off topic there
A class that's really picked up around here is the 1/8th GT electric. I believe some factors of its success are the openness of the rules. Any motor, battery, and ESC is allowed. We really only regulate the body, wheels, and drive-line. The other factors contributing to its success are it's a big car that looks closer to a real car when you drive it. Scale speed is slower, they have more body roll in the turns, and you get a lot of tire squeal. Plus, they are just as easy to drive (if not easier) and fit just fine on a 10th scale track.
Sorry I went a little off topic there
This idea is madness for any number of reasons. First, the fast and slow cars in the same heat (clubs don't have enough entrants to seed heats to avoid that) and second how many people do you think will stay in the sport when they are beaten by faster cars every week, week after week?
Of course 8th electric has picked up. From your description the car is easy to drive because set-ups aren't on the edge yet and relative to the weight of the car and grip of the tyres, they are slow! I think you just proved our point about classes that give slower cars being more popular, but for the reasons we usually find in off-road - relatively heavy cars with relatively low grip!