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Old 04-14-2003, 04:56 AM
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Bosscat
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For sure capacity is going to keep going up, our hobby takes just a fraction of the output of the battery manufacturers, anyone who thinks that the battery manufacturer actually cares about our section of the market is mistaken. What we as a hobby must do is to ensure the entry into racing is both fun and affordable. In my opinion we can best do this by inroducing our own limits, we do at present by having classes with motor limits and spec tyres. However we musn't loose sight of the fact that some guys will always want to race with the ultimate equipment if that means a 5 turn motor with rare earth magnets and 4800 mah cells then so be it. Conversley we must ensure that it will still be possible to go into a shop buy a kit, radio gear, batteries and a chager and go racing competitively in the appropriate class. We can still do this now but the moment we can't then our hobby will start to die. Just look at what happened to slot racing particularly in the UK it got too expensive and you could only buy from specialists and then if you wern't any good at metal work you had to get someone to build the car for you. Nowadays no one has even heard of it mention it in a model shop and they'll say oh you mean Scalextric or Fly cars but there's just no comparison.
Let the guys who want it race the ultimate equipment but lets make sure there's room for all
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