Originally Posted by
jackdani
this thing is strange...i was considering last night why all the brands continue to make lighter and lighter cars knowing very well wich are the admitted weight thresholds in races!
by doing that they complicete user's life, people have to invent something like this, put wheith, remove it, change position looking for good balance!! meanwhile if AE would have done a chassis 125gr more heavy it would have been however the lightest allowed, BUT for sure way more balanced compared with the job a user can do!
imho!
Simple; in race car design, centre of gravity is king. If the manufacturers add weight by making all of the components a bit heavier, the CoG will be higher than if the car is as light as possible and has some lead nice and low down on the chassis.
Also, there is a variance in radio gear and lipos that can easily account for 100g. Those with cars currently weighing 1350g with no lead wouldn't be very impressed if the car was made 125g heavier; they'd then have to spend a fortune on titanium and alloy bits to get the weight down.
Finally, I'm slightly skeptical that any car is 1225g ready to race with a decent Lipo and brushless setup. I suspect those scales may need calibrating...