Originally Posted by
robk
... The cars would be 1300g 25.5 sedans if I was inclined to let everyone have their 2 cents. Lead is cheap. But everybody wants to run $600 cars in the slowest class, so I guess there's no money left for ballast.
And some people just don't get it. The rules should NOT be written based on the lightest, newest, most cutting edge cars & parts available. Not in any class, especially not in USVTA. In off-road, the weight limit for 2wd Buggy in 2019 is actually heavier than it was in 2000. Touring car used to be 1502g in 2000. If you subtract the weight difference between a 6-cell Nimh & a 2S-6000 Lipo from this number, you get 1375g (not the 1320 everyone argues in favor of), and this is for the "high tech" class.