Originally Posted by
darksiede
See that's where you are wrong IMO... Vegas lives on the 3% of the population that goes there, many more stay at home and wish they could go!
In RC racing, the same thing happens.. You have people willing to spend 50$ every club race on new tires because it gives them an edge. People are willing to smoke a $100 motor just to win a club race..
Then there are people like me who also have kids in the sport and are forced to race under a budget- trying to make a $79 motor last as long as humanly possible... Using a $50 set of tires for 2 months (8 races) or more if I can manage it.. Hell I've bought the fast/money guys used tires and wheels (1 or 2 race old tires) for ten bucks..
That's where a spec class comes in.. and as I said earlier, the reason my brother's boys and my daughters will be out there in 25.5 blinky legends cars running spec gearing.. They may never have anyone else join them- but it will keep it cheap for us and make it fair and level for them and if anyone joins them.
Around Melbourne Australia I've run into maybe a dozen or so people who saw the track and started asking questions. Every time the question of price came up, they were gone. The only "new" faces I've seen on the track are either older people getting back into the hobby after a hiatus, or kids of people who are already racing. There have been a couple of people who have brought cars to the track to play around, but they're usually either monster trucks, drifters or cheap Walmart-style toy grade cars. We let them do their thing but we know they won't buy all new gear to start racing.