War Pig
I wanna be Dave
wow, that was a tough read, all those rants and complaints.
Good job on coming up with some great and well thought out rules, a furthering contribution of this hobby.
Thanks, I think once everyone settles down and runs these for awhile, they will be happy.
How does the class 2 and 3 compare to real world 1:1 racing? Are 42" tires considered 4.2" tires? Then the largest legal off-road tire you could run is 54" right? so then that 54" equates to 5.4"? I think this should be reflected how the rules were considered....as I believe they were but am not totally sure.
I don't think we were considering 1:1 racing as much as we we were trying to make 3 completely different looking classes. We wanted everyone to have a class, no matter how "extreme" you like to build your trucks. Remember, not all R/C scalers are 1/10th scale. Hard to compare a 5.4" R/C tire to a 54" 1:1 tire when you can have a class 3 rig that's anywhere from 1/12th scale to 1/8th scale.
anyhow, I love the rules, see very little grey, and what grey there is should be left up to the local clubs to have fun with.
We're still hoping that people will ignore the "gray areas" and just build realistic, cool, and unique looking rigs and not worry about making a scale comp rig. There will always be those people that push the rules, but for the most part I think people understand that scale should be first and foremost "fun".
Thanks for the input. Tim.