Blinky mode in my humble personal opinion has opened the door to make the same mistakes that were made 8+ years ago with brushed stock racing. I'm not looking to fight over my opinion, it won't change.

That being said esc vs esc you're getting into "losses." Which esc has the lowest on resistance, who runs cooler to keep that resistance down,etc. So in theory the top level esc's "may" be worth some time, possibly.

Now motor vs. motor. This is going to be all about which one can get the most watts while still being efficient. Efficiency is really only an issue with 1s applications since the races are 8 minutes and every tenth of a volt can matter.

What I don't like seeing is guys overcharging lipos, charging lipos on nimh mode to bump the voltage and a few other unsafe practices I don't care to mention. All of which I witnessed at the Offroad Nats.

Blinky mode has opened the door up again to motor of the (insert time frame), and who can get the best batteries and charge them JUST under their failure limit...No thanks.

You guy can have it. I'll race mod.

If everyone was really worried about limiting a class someone should have introduced a rev limiter device as I suggested previously, or perhaps run the entire setup in dual mode aka sensorless. Sensorless eliminates the sensors and ANY motor timing period. It physically cannot be "boosted" or modified past a certain amount of timing, period. Problem with this I suppose is that not everyone else can do this....