Look, im not knocking your abilities or your choices but by looking at the vehicles in your sig, i see you run a lot of off road. Off road requires a smooth throttle finger where as on road(what i mainly run) you stab the throttle as quickly as possible. On road puts more load (especially four wheel drive touring cars) on batteries and can weed out weaknesses of different batteries. Especially with spec or blinky classes. I used to buy cheaper lipos until a fellow racer(really fast guy) lets me run his cells and i was like holy $hit! there was so much punch my motor gearing needed to be adjusted to maximize power delivery. I recommend asking someone from your club to maybe run one of their premium cells and maybe(I emphasize maybe) you'll see the difference.if you don't think so, thats your opinion and you are definitely entitled to it. Im not saying buying the best batteries will get you on the podium, but it'll get you closer to getting on the podium. plus if anyone is buying 200.00 dollar packs, they're crazy. My cap is a hundred bucks.

But at the end of the day, to each is own. Piece