This may sound blunt but the people that I've seen who have tried out the 22 and quickly sold it proclaiming it a failure quite frankly knew nothing about tuning. This isn't a bash on the B4 though so stay with me. One such guy works at a local hobby shop. He sold it and went back to his tried and true XXX which he loves. He played with the 22 for about a month and complained that he couldn't get it set up well. He talked a big game at the shop and bragged about his prowess as a driver even going so far as to claim he had raced at the ROAR nats. I watched him race his XXX the night that he sold his 22. Remember, he loves this car and claims it is dialed in. He couldn't drive to save his life and ended up in the bottom half of the B main. There was no C main and he didn't break anything. I'm certainly not going to blame the car for his results!

The fact of the matter is that the biggest advancements in the past 20 years has been in the electronics with far less in the vehicles themselves although there have been some improvements over the years. On any given weekend a XX, XXX, 22, B2, B3, B4, RB5 , etc may end up winning. At the very least they all still prove themselves to be competitive when setup properly and its the setup that is the key. Even a 20 year old car can be quite competitive today when setup well, especially considering how many people even with modern cars can't tune their cars to save their lives. I have no doubt that different cars drive and feel very different than others but all of them should be more than capable of winning in the right hands. You've got to find the one that feels best to your driving style. The first step is that you know what you are doing. Anyone who feels that they can just buy a certain car, set it up according to some setup they found on the internet, and can win with it is someone that will probably lose every single race they are in.

The 3 most important things needed to do well in a race are, in this order, 1) good tuning, 2) good driving, and 3) a good car. I put them in that order because a poorly tuned car, even with a good driver, will most likely lose to a well setup car with an average driver. A poorly setup car with a poor driver is a disaster! I left a good car for last because all of the options today, and for the last 2 decades for that matter, are all quite capable and if either of the first 2 things is bad, the type of car is pointless and won't make up for those deficiencies. You won't win with an old Tamiya Grasshopper though so you still do need a capable vehicle. You just won't win solely because you have a 22 and not a B4 or a B4 and not an RB5.