Originally Posted by
bertrandsv87
Remember e=mc2....
All this proves is there enough energy contained within the mass of an RC car, that if released, would destroy a small sized city.
Originally Posted by bertrandsv87
In this hobby nothing is negligeable... Every milligram counts. Lighter gears make your Car accelerate and decelerate faster while conserving energy and decrease battery voltage loss throughout the run... It's a chain reaction that can make a big difference...
Perhaps, i think in reality a whole lot of what people do have more or less negligible or even zero influence over the car other than in their minds. Confidence in your gear is important, maybe even as important as good setup.
When you look at Keven Maceys post, someone who did the math and came up with a result of 0.06%, sounds like a lot does it, not really, and in terms of lap times we are talking in the 1000ths of a second. And it is only true if all setup changes effect lap times in a linear way, they do not.
Changes to a car are not linear, they are exponential, hence the law of diminishing returns, and the closer you get to the physical limits of the car, the less effect these changes have on the car.
So, unless you have reached the limits of the standard big ticket items of setup, the things which have the greatest effect on lap time, you have achieved very little, and if you have reached the physical limits of conventional setup, you will gain something that is most likely statistically irrelevant.