Thank you for your input Mr Campbell, I must first say we have never spoke on the phone to my knowledge, I havent called tekin in a good while. At the track I run, we have a 220 ft run line with 7 second laps, we might be off the throttle 1.5 s seconds at each end of the track. most run Losi or Tekno 40 spur and 15 - 17 pinion gears, off track after temps= most are running 150 max on the motor, 120 ish on the esc and 100 - 105 mAX battery temps, Speed control setting on most of our esc s are set to factory basic settings, we dont boost 1/8 like we do the 1/10 for sure. Question, would running 3 cell with much less gearing be easier on the ESC overall ? And maybe running a lower Kv motor on 3 cell ? Thanks Take no offence at my posts, just being honest that the Gen2 doesnt offer us the same as the Gen1 on the exact same setting