Originally Posted by
tommy911t
Hello Legends!
We just put down 22x60 of Black carpet adjacent to a popular indoor off road carpet track here in Portland, OR.
There is interest growing as more and more of us show up with 1/12 21.5 Foam LM cars. The interest is coming from off roaders so I'm wondering how to best guide someone to the class.
Any tips on how to get seasoned off roaders into this class without the sticker shock of an Awesomatix or wild esc's?
It's been a pleasure to wheel a pan car again.
-Tommy
Congratulations on the new track. Glad to see you guys making it work by settling for two smaller tracks. Your track will be pretty similar in size to what we race on here in Spokane (~50x30).
If your primary audience is seasoned off roaders, I don't think you'll have an issue with sticker shock. They know what it cost to put a car together and a 1/12th scale chassis and electronics are no more expensive than bulding a complete carpet buggy. I think the bigger roadblocks will be the foam tires and the "voo doo" behind wrenching on a pan car. Are you doing open ROAR 21.5 or a spec motor?