Deeper thread is the main distinction. They came out mid summer I believe.

We still have a club?

I guess you missed my smiley face. Lighten up Francis. And Busman, I just hit 40 years in the hobby this year, started in 1984. Yes, I'm an old guy also and I agree with you 100%, life is too short to get your knickers in a bunch over a bunch of rules.

I also agree with Skypilot, if the club wants to change the rules to allow the better tire, great. Our club did that in VTA. The PF tire did not work on our surface, so we allowed HPI.

I wonder how many missed the reference to "Lighten up, Francis"?
"Call me 'Psycho'".

Also, a different tread pattern. Anybody have a link to the Sweep tires for USGT?

These are the Sweeps.. they are called GT10.

https://www.sweepracingusa.com/GT10F...ons_p_841.html

the ones I order are a different package number and label , probably the same tire. and we use the 36's

Seems to tread ever closer to turning into USGT USLMH


https://www.redrc.net/2025/01/exotek...y/#more-227900

Isn't that a P Zero? Been out for quite a while. This one is a P Zero Race, It's a P Zero with very minor tweaks.

yup its the Pzero R with sharper contour lines and probably a shorter front end section.

Sorry for my confusion, but back to that posting of ROAR with an X over the Gravity motor: they aren't saying that USGT isn't using that motor anymore, just that ROAR has dropped it's own USGT rules and let the VTA/USGT website govern the rules, which still only allows the Gravity 21.5 Fixed Timing motor. Is that correct?
I'm asking since 2 of my local tracks allow any ROAR 21.5 (variable timing included). 21.5 FT feels like my enjoyable speed, but they don't seem to run that class.
Thanks.

Correct. ROAR doesn't want to show brand favoritism by assigning a spec motor to any of their classes, so they cleaned up their class structure and dropped classes with this distinction. USGT still runs under the USVTA ruleset, which states the Gravity 21.5 USGT fixed timing motor as spec. All this means is USGT won't be run at any ROAR sanctioned events. What your tracks decide to run locally is up to them. USGT used to be open motor, but I feel its far more competitive and better paced running with the spec motors. They run cool, last a long time, and have excellent parity from old to new. Locally we run USGT and VTA with the spec Gravity fixed timing motors.

Here at Houston RC we run USGT using the FT JustStock 21.5 and it's super close racing and very competitive. As a general understanding, have filtered the body list and excluded those that are extreme / non recognisable as a real car on first look.. eg. the Bwoah is not allowed.

Isn't the BWOAH the Aston Martin Valkyrie? https://www.astonmartin.com/en-us/models/valkyrie

I've been on the USGT bandwagon for ages but even I am getting sick of the current body rules... My thoughts are if the body isn't modeled off a car on the current GT3 Homologated list (I know, licensing is a factor too) it shouldn't be legal. It's USGTP for the most part now.