I'm not a Marrca Member and have been turned off when I've said something in Marrca forums as an outsider, but a few obervations from afar:

Brushed motors are not obsolete, not by a long shot. And to claim otherwise is foolish. Are brushless motors the wave of the future? Very possibly. There's a term I was taught in my days of retail called "Market Saturation". It refers to how many people in an area have bought into a product or service. Right now Brushless motors are more of a novelity than anything else. We ran them for a good 4 months in Sedan at Trackside...after the Novak race the class died. Why? Eventhough there's a a benefit to being relatively maintence free, there is no horsepower advantage, so it's hard to just motor up on someone if you can't outdrive them. Its an odd concept, I admit. It's a similar reason as to why spec classes ultimately fail when it is a spec motor and battery class (and to some extent I think you're starting to see it with spec tire rules). While spec classes do keep costs down, to some people its just not as enjoyable. I loved racing in the Spec Car classes we used to have here. But when 2-3 teams started to be the winners every week it became frustrating. It boils down to the fact that some people are better drivers than others, and when you make the chassis, motor, and batteries the same, those with lower skill levels more often than not give up when they are constantly towards the back of the pack. I've seen it happen to too many people, and it sucks when people you consider friends stop showing up because they can't compete...

If you find yourself with 15 on road classes, something is wrong. For all intents and purposes, MARRCA is starting from scratch, or it seems that way. 2 other things from a retail background that might make sense to this. First of all, Perception becomes reality. If people are looking to bring a competitive program back to the club, like it USED TO HAVE, then it needs to run a serious race program. Another thing to remember is the KISS principle (keep it simple stupid). There is no reason, none, for a small club to have a ton of different classes. The more you diversify your program, the more watered down it will be. Start with the basics: Stock Rubber, Stock Foam, 1/12th scale, and maybe 1 other class. 1/12 scale should be 4 cell, its the class standard. Don't worry about pleasing everyone, because in the end you please no-one...

Gordon, I am not trying to pick on you, but your point of view is just skewed. You don't realize or don't want to that you are in the minority...not just possibly in the club but nationally as well. You feel that those running brushless would be penalized if forced to run brushed motors. I see the other side of the fense. Say someone has an old car laying around that they aren't using and decided to recycle the electronics out of there and stick them into a 1/12th scale car. But he'd have to invest another $225+ to run that class in order to buy a brushless. And what about the person who bought a Brushless, but bought the 5800 before for some other car. That person would be forced to purchase the much less popular 4300 to compete. Just because its convienient to you, doesn't mean its convienient to everyone. But if there are 3-4 people who want to run it, that's a great start to get the probram moving. BUT, if your goal is to grow the club, again dividing an already small class into 2 smaller classes doesn't make sense.

There are those of us out here who want to see Marrca flurish. The more strong tracks in the region, the better. That's the whole goal of this Series that starts this weekend, to get people out of their niches and to get them off their butts and travel to some of the other awesome tracks around us. I'm was guilty of that, but started traveling to other tracks earlier this year and have loved it. Road Rage in Green Bay..Awesome program, great racers, love going there. I raced at Oshkosh a few weeks ago and will be heading there again this weekend. Again, great facility and a lot of great people. The Den in Monroe, I haven't been there for their indoor program yet but was there for a nitro race this summer and will be there a few times this winter, same story. There is no reason why this can't be Marrca too. It's been Marrca in the past.