Originally Posted by Lukyduckie

I think the main and possibly the only reason why they have a monopoly and also why they are the go to for RC is because they have an already successful sustainable business supply timing equipment across all kinds of motorsport. I don't believe there is a big enough market within all motorsport including rc (which is a laughably small part) to run a second company that makes enough money and is not a passion project.

If Mercedes or Ferrari or Honda etc were to create an RC car it would not be the cheapest thing out there.

Lets be thankful that we have a reliable and almost fully adopted technology that allows us to travel all over the world to world class tracks or basement tracks or back of the barn tracks and compete with full timing and not a hand counter and a piece of paper with equipment we bring with us. Imagine if every track had a different system, What a nightmare that would be....