Originally Posted by
CypressMidWest
Of course this rant comes from someone who only races 12th scale and WGT, which are the two classes that actually got SLOWER when we went brushless and lipo. If you guys were running 1s sedan, you'd beg for boost.........
Here is the problem.....for 12th scale because of the lesser voltage they now use yes Boost is just fine in that class. But in sedan on our little tracks boost is too much on a majority of our tracks. Yes some people can handle it but the majority of people can’t. If you want to get more people racing and keep racing then some sacrifice is going to have to be made. We can’t all have our boost and use it too. Racing is very complex to start with if you need to make it less complex so it will appeal to a larger group of racers....if not the shrinking pool will keep shrinking.
Originally Posted by
CypressMidWest
Everyone is complaining that noone wants to move up to Mod, but why would they, when there's no class that offers the kind of training necessary to reach that level? If every class that's designed to feed into the Mod class, becomes a slower, technology limited class, how is anyone supposed to develop the skills required to move up? The jump from the current "Stock" classes to MOD is HUGE, and every time we slow things down or limit tech in the "Stock" classes we make the gap greater.
There are not many tracks that you can properly race mod on at today’s speeds…look at the lap times from 17.5 boosted at IIC to Mod at IIC…I think it was .2 off hot lap. That’s on a larger carpet track with some of the best drivers in the world. There are not large asphalt or carpet tracks on every corner around the US. So the ability it takes to run mod is very hard to learn on small tracks with the speed of the cars today hence this is the reason that stock or spec is so popular around the US. So really the tracks need to get larger or the speed needs to come down....which is going to happen first? This is why there needs to be two sets of rules for the track size. If the track is larger than 100ft you can and should run boost....if the track is smaller than that then no you should not run boost. This is the fundamental issue with the US Vs. the rest of the world. The rest of the world has some really nice large size tracks that are just fine running mod and or boost. When it comes to the US not many racers are lucky enough to have places like this. So their availability to get onto a track that can support mod is limited at best. So they race what they can comfortably race on their size local track and in most cases it stock or spec. So if you want to tell people that they have to move up to mod when they don’t have a track to race mod on then I fail to see the logic behind this. If their local track is large enough then by all means move on to mod but don’t force others to do the same.