I'd let you play Q3 with us, we'd just crank your handicap up. Sweet! Honestly, that's not a valid comparison, because we'd just ghost a regular copy to your drive.
I guess I assumed it is a relaxed enough atmosphere at MARCCA that if I am the only one who shows up with a stock brushless, I can still race without it being a big deal. I'll never forget the guy I saw at Trackside going all psycho on a marshall because HE was off line and couldn't see around the marshall. I don't need this, I'm thinking. That's a little too serious for me, this is supposed to be fun.
I know somebody who raced a 1/12 scale in stock sedan (at MARCCA) because he was the only one there. Was that a big deal? Maybe exceptions are only made for certain people. I don't know.
If nobody pushes brushless, it will never change. If new guys come in and see everybody using brushed, that's what they will buy, an endless spiral of comm turning.
I think we all agree that brushless is coming. I just can't bring myself to go down the other road. I have no attachment to brushed what-so-ever, and I have no delusions about competing at a National or even Regional level, so it is an easy choice for me.
If the rule is, you need three to make a class, then we should try to hold to that. And if a dedicated, dues paying member shows up one week and is the only one with stock brushless 1/12 scale, it should not be a big deal to run with the regular 1/12 scales. It actually seems as if people don't like brushless, like it's personal somehow.
why should you be entitled to mix it up in a different class just because you want to be different?
I'm not different because I WANT to be different. Being different is a side-effect my easy acceptance of change. It's much easier to be a herd animal and go along with the crowd. Trail blazing is tough work.
On to my entitlement issues. First, it's basically the same class. Second, what exactly is the problem with running with them (occasionally if need be)? Because it accelerates a little faster off the corner? That upsets the flow of the race? Then we need to get the slow cars off the track too because they upset the flow of the race. And get rid of the fast guys too, nothing upsets me more than Vang flying by me at mach 1.
That's another good thing about the way the truck classes work, the races flow better because, regardless of hardware, it keeps people of similar lap times in the same class.
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You don't like truing motors, and I don't like building shocks, so does that mean I should create a class for cars with no shocks? It just doesn't make any sense.
I want to race with as little work as possible. I know celt has touted himself as being lazy, but I don't know. If there was a class where there was no tuning, building, fixing and all the cars were identical and always opererated in identical fashion, I'd be all over that like stink on....well you know. I like driving, not wrenching. I mean, check this out, I throw the bottom of cupcakes out because the frosting is better. Why take the bad with the good, when you can just have the good?
And the drifting was more or less just a brief little fun class. I kind of hope it dies out too. Because, as you stated, the proper way to compete in drifting is by judging style, not time around the track. But, again, this is a club, not a buisiness.
And Clegg, I think you should try to get on the board, directors that is, you're already all over the boards around the track.