I'm not trying to make anything mythical, but if you are going to call a class of racing stock class, that's exactly what it should be.

We have not been involved in rc racing that long but your classification of a particular class (stock) is wrong. I have been involved with other forms of motor sports, their classification (Novice, Expert & Mod) were exactly as stated with novice & expert allowed very little modifications if any.
As you say modified was open to the cheque book.....

Greg it's good information.
Jared has only been racing 2 years.
First year in 540 with an old brushed novak speedie & 2009 in stock with the SPX.
The time we bought it, you are right it was the speedie to have but we did not have at the time any brushless one's.

My point is not to winge about speedie's, Jared uses Tekin products (not speedies) & loves Tekin, but to highlite that I believe the stock class rules are wrong & this is not helping the number of people that would love to race other than at club level.

Cheers Daz