aconsola wrote:civilguy wrote: I've said this before... the idea of getting the old buggies together on the track like bitd is gone, replaced by how close can we get to the cutoff to get an edge.
I think that the cutoff should be pushed back a few years. short arm 6-gear '10s and 5-link jrx being the most modern you can run, no stealth, no h-arms. To me there seems to be little difference between a b-4 and a highly race prepped rpm/worlds front end rc10 with a stealth. one of the racers even commented how his suspension geometry and setup was essentially the same between his rpm 10T and his t-4 that he raced there regularly.
XX cars should be altogether disallowed as there is too much room for using much more modern parts, or even later versions of the car.
Just my opinion.
I'm sorry you feel that way, Jeff. But it is just the nature of the beast when it comes to racing, I guess. You will always have people pushing the limits of the equipment to TRY and go faster. How many RC10's BITD show up at the track completely bone stock? There were always outlaw motors, trailing arm conversions, belt drive trannies, pushed/zapped cells, aluminum this, graphite that. All in hopes to make the OE cars go faster. That has been part of the history of RC just as well as the original gold tub or the SRB's. The pressure doesn't need to be there, as this is a vintage "meet" more than just a race. But the competitiveness between the racers will always be there.
I hope that we can get enough people to show up so that we could segregate the 2wd's into a more period correct class. Split up the earlier buggies from the later ones. As long as you have enough entries to fill each class, I don't see a problem with that. But again, that will be up to the race director to decide. The amount of qualifiers that were run last year wasn't a problem for me except for the sheer number of cars that I entered. I was busy, but it was my own fault for that. Still I must say it was the most fun racing that I have had all year and I look forward to gouing back this year.