Originally Posted by kingpops

Then you bring in tyre truers, and cutting them down so small that you only get one run with them. To be competitive you will use heaps of sets and it will soon run in excess of what control rubber will cost

The "big boys" will always have an advantage-they have talent and abilities the average racer does not posess, and whilst some of the skills can be learnt(car setup etc) some are just natural abilities.

I am sure Jake Zarb is part Jedi the way he can drive a car.....he just knows what is going to happen and can take action to prevent it. And he would soundly slap 99.999% of other racers, regardless of the restrictions placed on his car or tyres or whatever. Same could be said for any of the so called "big boys" but when you put people of similar talent and similar equipment in a competitive environment, thats when they need to push the limits of thier own ability and start to make poor decisions and taking another driver out is one of them. Look at all the "control" classes of full scale motorsport and see how many races are decided by accidents/driver error. Unfortunatley in 5 minute R/C racing a 10 second period against a barrier is sure to kill any chance of winning- you would need to be about 1 second a lap faster than the entire field to make up the lost time-and that is simply impossible at the A main level.

Full control tyres is the best way to level the playing field for the mortals amongst us. In reality most of the previously unobtainable stuff(big batteries, sick motors etc) has been accesable to most racers, albeit at some cost, but no-one ever says this is a budget sport either.....