Originally Posted by billdelong

It really sounds like we're comparing apples to oranges... one might consider "tuning opportunity" as "unnecessary complication". I came in late to the game around 2010, so the only brushed racing I saw was Spec motors in sealed (non tunable) cans... the extent of tuning we had was using comm drops and that was it.

I'd like to see a break down of each tuning attribute and see how things have changed with the migration to brushless racing dominating the market. If brushed motors were so much better, then I don't understand why they are no longer marketed for racing anymore?