How about I meet up with you guys and we build a new layout and see who is fastest? The same layout for 10 years is just sad. Running the same layout year after year really limits your ability. You are only keeping you and the other drivers from getting better at driving. Also, your idea of what happens during club racing is just comical. Unless you go to a large race and run a spec class, nobody is going to touch your car or bother you. Never have I had anything like that happen at the 50+ different tracks where I have raced in 28 years of sanctioned racing.

Please don't think that I would not have any problem beating you on your 10 year old layout either, no stopwatch, straight up race. If you run NiMH batteries your car is nowhere near the limit that is capable on your track. There is not enough power to overdrive the car. If your car was more powerful, you would go faster, especially if your track is massive and mostly straights. How big is the area of your track? Make the area of your track less than half the size, and see how your lap times very greatly when you spend more time in corners, and less time going straight.

Again, 28 years of sanctioned racing experience.