There is no doubt that better brushed motors can be made outside the ROAR rules, but why not just put your efforts toward the future? The sooner you adapt the sooner you will be making race winning brushless motors. Certainly better typewritters could have been made in 1980, but why would one do so?
Hey Gordon, I can still buy a typewriter today in 2005! Motor manufacturers aren't upset about having to develop a brushless system, they are upset about the change being sprung on them overnight. For several years the rules have supressed the incentive for companies to develop brushless systems, now they are being told they gotta have one overnight. If you were a typewriter maker in the 80's, you didn't just shut down your factory and start making computers and word processor software, you kept selling typewriters while you developed new technology and entered both marketplaces and transitioned to better technology.
If manufacturers were told in January of 2005 that in January 2006 ROAR would allow all brushless motors to run along side brushed I don't think motor manufacturers would be upset like they are having it sprung on them overnight.
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