Originally posted by GordonFreeman
[B]Clegg, I'll take you on in Q3, you run a celeron 450 with a TNT1 and I use whatever I want. You see if that's any fun. Hardware makes a difference, to a point.
And if you think that hardware makes no difference, it's all driving skill, then why should anybody care if I use a stock brushless?
Cummon, you know what I meant. and as I said, if you dont have the hardware to play a game, you need to buy so you CAN play the game. And I talked about a tweaked stock motor (like one of the outlaw stocks that are epoxy balanced, or have a V2 top, etc... ) not a brushless "stock" which has more punch and speed than even a 19Turn plant. Takes a good bit of driver skill to make up for a power difference like that.
And, yes, this discussion should be about more that just brushed vs brushless. At this point, though, I feel this is the most important issue for me.
I think thats PRECISELY the issue here. This shouldn’t be about what one dude wants to run. That’s the very wrong mentality to use in a discussion about how to better the club in the long run. The discussions need to be more about the program as a whole. To me I could care less what the club comes down with for a spec for 1/12th. I will adapt to fit it, as long as it is within reason and able to be run other locations with minor changes.
Marcca shouldn’t be looking to build its own island of rules that make it vastly different than everyone around it just so a few people are happier. There are gains to be had in the big picture for sticking with the status quo no matter how good it is for a technology progression stance.
Also John, lets be serious here, what does one person matter? I mean if one person stopped coming but the rules changed and caused 5 people to come and race now... the club comes out ahead. No rules change could please everyone and the minority as Gary put it will ALWAYS have an uphill battle (and a futile one at that in most cases).
I think its wrong to make an argument for the betterment of the club in the future about one person or one issue. This is about many more things than that.
(and btw, i'd school you in Q3
hehe)