Mike,

It was good to race with you too. I had a great time racing. Now I understand what you were talking about on the brushed vs brushless. I have had problems with the motor not working at times in the past, but I never knew exactly what the problem was. Usually it would just start working again. I guess that would be hanging a brush. I do think that I just fried the motor at the challenge. I thought I dumped in the second heat, but now I'm pretty sure thats when it fried it. I was using a 12 tooth pinion and probably should have been using the 11.

A November challenge would be great! I'd be there for sure. You car was really planted in the main. You sure you wern't just taking it easy on the rest of us untill the money round?

I ended up using the soft wide for the rear and the medium narrow for the front. It gave me the best balance of grip. The only drawback is that the front med's wear out really fast.

I also talked to the HPI guys about the future of the 1/18th micro and they didn't have any real information either way.