2wdrive

uhmm you are talking indeed about different things here. For competition racing, even on clublevel everything got way more easier with lipo's and brushless. A very good competition brushed motor costs half of a brushless motor. But that is initialy. Springs, brushes all other stuff comes ontop of that making it as expensive or even more expensive then a brushless motor in the long term. Same with nihms and all the stuff you have to buy to get the best out of it.

Now if your just running a silver can and a stickpack you can have as much exitement as any other. The challange and excitement of running a silver can motor around the track is just not there anymore after a year or so. I do think that everyone is looking for more speed after a while because they want to get more challange and excitement. It is a myth that young kids or people in general will like to drive a slow car around the track. At first yes cause they can't drive so the excitement/challange is there to even hold the car on the circuit but once they got that figured out the excitement is gone. going faster will get that excitement back cause it is again a challange and so on.

For instance the Mini class started out as a stock class here. Now everyone are fixing there silvercans so they run like a hot 23t motors so they go faster then the other lol. Even going so far as to make individual tabs on every cell in a stickpack so they can equalize a stickpack! Go figure.