But I think the Brushless/Brushed arguement seems to represent a lot of what has been the problem. A minority of people want to run X, which is a rare class anywhere nationwide. Why alienate yourselves to something so specific? I think a spec tire rule does the same thing. Its exclusionary instead of being inclusionary. Here's how:

Driver A from X-Raceway decides he's going to travel to another track to race. His local club has no tire rules and he has 3 sets of Yokomo rubber tires to run.

Driver A travels 75 minutes to Y-Raceway to run, only to find out that they have a spec tire rule. To race he must not only pay for registration, but drop another $35 for a set of tires he'll use once.

Driver A decides he'll just forget the idea and leave....

Brushless 1/12th scale is a neat idea, I will give you that. But like I stated earlier there aren't enough people yet with competitive cars that own the Brushless systems, so you're dividing up an already small class. When the Brushless turnout started evaporating, guys just ran with stock. Now the good stock guys were turning faster laps than the brushless guys, but the brushless guys were a bit of a headache to deal with on track because they had so much rip. They were more in the way and out of control than actually competitive. I haven't seen the 4300 system run yet, so I don't know how it compares to a Stock motor. But when we ran Brushless Oval at the Paved oval nats, we were turning laps almost as fast as open modified...

I guess it needs to be decided if you guys want Marrca to be a "Racing" club or just an "R/C" Club...and move on from there.