Very true to a point. It depends on the track that your running on. As for me I mainly run on high bite clay indoor tracks. Running a stiffer chassis on these tracks will be more beneficial than to have the chassis flexing & giving me more traction than needed. In a earlier post I said I thought it would be cool if someone made an aluminum center section chassis piece...giving a little more weight to the truck & a little more rigidity to the overall chassis. For now I have spare graphite lying around & I will make a belt tunnel brace to give it a try. The good thing is that it's easy enough to take if off if needed.