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Old 03-15-2007, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by EddieO
National races are not for BEGINNERS.....never have been, never will be.....thats the joke part of our hobby.....anyone can sign up for nationals without actually EARNING it....and REALLY, does a beginner really benefit at all from spending $500 to compete at a national event?

Stock was NEVER meant to be a beginner class......even your great Team AE cherry won a stock world title....stock was removed later because they wanted it to just be one class.....not because they wanted to turn into a beginner class...

Go back and look at history cherry.....even your idol scott brown did it.....88 Summer Sizzler, stock and mod champ....numerous stock titles after that as a FULL FACTORY Losi driver....



Later EddieO
Right about the Nationals, definetely not for beginners, but the reason why ROAR made the No Modified and Stock in the same class was to prevent from "Pro's" competing in the lower classes. What did manufacturers do? hire up and comers and fixated them in the AMATEUR, not beginner or Pro Class.

As far as Associated winning stock, this was due to the fact that the only 2 categories back then were 12th stock and 12th mod. When 10th scale was incorporated (Pan first) stock disappeared.

Finally, Scott Brown in '88 was an up and comer, he was not yet a full blown Factory Travel guy, he was more of a support driver. He did not become a House hold name until '93 in Basildon, England at the Offroad Worlds, where seemingly out of nowhere, he Qualified 2nd place behind Joel in 2wd mod with the new Losi XX. There was a special feature in Car Action on who this guy was for this reason. I'm not saying he didn't win Nationals in Stock afterwards, Kortz and J.D. Beckwidth also did, but this is when ROAR divided the Off Road nats into a separate event in stock and mod to keep ringers from competing in the AMATEUR class.
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