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Originally Posted by Richard Lowe
In my experience the guys in the US are a bit more conservative with their motor choice vs their skill level. In my visits over there for the Clash I don't think I've ever seen someone driving a motor they can't handle. But over here goto any random club meeting and 50% of the field are running way more power than they can handle/take advantage of.
It's us that are power mad 
Years ago at Harrogate club meetings we ran the same 27t's in a stock class for a season or so and it was some of the best racing I've ever done. The cars were so underpowered and slow every tiny thing with your driving made a difference, and as everyone used the same motor and agreed we weren't going to fiddle with them everyones was the same speed. |
I would agree with this, I used to race at a similar club in Poynton, Cheshire in a relatively small hall about 20 years ago. Everyone ran the 27t 12 quid motors as they were then but we were able to lay pretty tight tracks and the racing was very close and the lack of straight line speed was simply not an issue. You couldn't afford a single mistake if you wanted to win. There was a regular turn out of 50+ drivers every Wed evening. They used to have Std class in the Radio Race Car outdooor series which again was very close racing, and although the lack of speed was much more apparent on the outdoor tracks it was a way in to the sport for novices not to feel too overawed and to learn basic driving skills before 'graduating' to modified class.
Coming back to racing last year after a number of years out and straight into modified brushless was in at the deep end and a club like the one of old would defintely have been beneficial in getting my skills up again.
My experience of starting in the bottom heats again has been varied and I think that a Stock class (or even just one or two heats at a bigger meeting) would be useful for the novices to all compete together and not have the issues where one car is driving up the straight at half the speed of the others, and weaving as they go, whereas if they had a stock class that would not happen.