We are good with a NT stock class. We all agree stock needs to be slower and even. We do not think this will necessarily provide the even everyone is looking for and we expect to smell a few motors in the mains like the old days. However we are a lot closer than we use to be in the magic motor and battery era.
Most tracks need a sportsman or novice class. Stock is not a beginner class, it is a very competitive class, the deepest at many tracks, and is a skill just like any other to carry speed and drive smooth compared to point and shoot. It is considered a drivers class, not a RTR entry point for newcomers.
We also need a middle class where the majority of people fall. Not slow and not whoa fast and guaranteed to need some spare parts. Fast enough that equipment does not really decide the race and you actually have to set it up well and drive it to win. Boost technologies are a great equalizer in that regard.
I do not understand the onroad argument that it is a needed skill to be able to drive a light switch mod motor. The point is to go faster around the track and more people can handle the mild mod rip with the mod top speed of a boosted setup. It makes sense to learn to handle the mod speeds before you try to tackle full mod acceleration. Boosted classes are the best training ground for mod, and as mentioned some are finding they can go as fast with a lot less motor that is boosted. Does mod have to be hard to drive and hard on all your equipment? Do we need a middle stock class, or a middle class that is mild mod to challenge the more adventurous. We are always trying to push people to mod so the less talented have a chance to win something and this is a mod class people can handle.
This hard to setup thing is crazy. A few seconds to set onboard boosted and non boosted profiles that are good enough for most are on most controllers. A few minutes if you want to tweak things a little more with a programmer. How can this be too hard in the age of cel phones and computers?
So the real question is do we allow existing esc’s with spec mode? Do we at least allow people a choice and the value of being able to run NT stock and a boosted class with the same equipment?
The other option is to ban almost all existing esc’s and require everyone to buy new systems.
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