Originally Posted by
Randy_Pike
How many regulated classes do you need? Blinky was meant for "sportsman" and "novices."
Stock racing 10 years ago meant you raced a handout motor which you tuned. Some were better than others at doing it. Weren't these the good 'ol days?
You keep looking to restrict every aspect of facing we might as well go by Tyco cars from Walmart and race those.
ROAR already has attendance issues. Everyone racing the same esc/motor combo will likely not make it better. In the US we as customers like to have choices. Yes we have the choice to not race the class or the race, but is the message we want to send out?
If you compare racing from over seas then also include facts such as 10.5 is "stock" and in asia for example Mod is the deeper division. There's a reason that Ifmar has no "stock" classes.
I think you are blurring the line between stock and novice/sportsman...blinky was meant for "Stock". Stock is the bottom class but it’s not necessarily the novice or beginner class...it just most times shares the same power plant. There could be a need for 4 classes....novice for the beginner....stock for whoever wants to race stock....intermediate/super stock those with better skill sets...and mod. Roar has the classes currently structured as Stock, Super Stock and Mod. Stock isn’t a novice class so one shouldn’t assume that it’s going to be novice racers....but it is the class you normally start out in. It’s going to be filled with racers who like to race stock and all the rules that come with it.
Hand out motors and or Spec ESC's can’t be too bad or else the ETS series wouldn’t be as big as it is....also their "stock" class is 13.5 now down from 10.5 before.
If you are going to use facts from outside the US about 10.5 motors and such also make note that their tracks are far larger than the majority of tracks here in the US.