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When I play soccer at an organised club I play exactly the same game they play at the World Cup, and I enjoy it.

Those of us who race buggys enjoy that too. Any RC class is enjoyable if competed in with the right spirit, and with sufficient competition.

If something is a national or state title class people will want to race it at club and intermediate level too. That always happens with motor classes, with chassis classes, with everything. It's the reason why you end up with a hopelessly split club racing scene if national motor classes don't make sense for the majority of club racers.

The national classes have to reflect the WC classes, to give those title aspirants hope, and because we are obliged. Feeder classes to these make perfect sense too. This is pretty much always going to be the case, and it doesn't really matter if 80% of new drivers have never heard of the WCs, because a national racing scene will always be dictated to a fair degree by the WCs, in just the same way which events are run at an athletics meet are dictated by which are competitive events at the Olympics or WCs in that sport.

There is some space left over though, where we can run a class that isn't a WC class. This is what we can change and it is where we need to focus our attention.

Up till now that class has been Stadium Truck. The question I'm trying to get people to answer here is: is Stadium Truck the right class to fill this gap moving forward?

There seems to be a good case for SCT right now, but if we don't look at the big picture then the question of which class to run becomes a "Which class do you and your club like best?" I'm just trying to frame the situation in terms of that big picture (of which the WC classes are an inextricable part) and get people thinking "Which class is best for the sport?" instead.