Originally Posted by
Dread Pirate
Sorry for my confusion, but back to that posting of ROAR with an X over the Gravity motor: they aren't saying that USGT isn't using that motor anymore, just that ROAR has dropped it's own USGT rules and let the VTA/USGT website govern the rules, which still only allows the Gravity 21.5 Fixed Timing motor. Is that correct?
I'm asking since 2 of my local tracks allow any ROAR 21.5 (variable timing included). 21.5 FT feels like my enjoyable speed, but they don't seem to run that class.
Thanks.
Correct. ROAR doesn't want to show brand favoritism by assigning a spec motor to any of their classes, so they cleaned up their class structure and dropped classes with this distinction. USGT still runs under the USVTA ruleset, which states the Gravity 21.5 USGT fixed timing motor as spec. All this means is USGT won't be run at any ROAR sanctioned events. What your tracks decide to run locally is up to them. USGT used to be open motor, but I feel its far more competitive and better paced running with the spec motors. They run cool, last a long time, and have excellent parity from old to new. Locally we run USGT and VTA with the spec Gravity fixed timing motors.