Originally Posted by
tc5 man
man you have to race with sponser, drivers yikes that sucks ! im lucky enough that i just race, with regular joe drivers like me.
yea 1/10 should of stayed 1/10 not 1/8, i wonder who started the 1/8 electric anyways.
i am curous though why truggy is more popular in certain places and not others ?
Electric 1/8 became popular because people wanted 1/8th durability with the convenience of electric plug and play. It wasn't possible until around five or so years ago when lipo technology became some what mainstream because NIMH batteries were simply not capable of the power needs that larger brushless motors require.
We started out using airplane brushless motors and very expensive lipo packs. Guys like Rc-monster started manufacturing simple motor mounts. The cars were basically frankenstein creations for bashers. A few of us started showing up at the tracks and the lipo packs started getting cheaper and now we legitimately have electric 1/8 scale cars.
We are now at the point that you can do a 1/5th scale pretty easily too.