Which chassis will win in 2007

[graeme_rsa]

What will dominate in 2007? Simple – which ever chassis the factory drivers will use!

The R/C companies are out to make money!
They sponsor their drivers to promote their products. These guys are the best drivers out there and whatever they drive they will stand a very good chance of winning!
Does that mean that the latest chassis from the major R/C manufactures is better than the now discontinued chassis which we all have?
I doubt it!
Introducing new models and saying how good they are because Mr Y won the ZZZ champs using one, is all hype!
Mr Y could probably have won the ZZZ champs using an HPI RS4 Pro2!

Cheers
Graeme

[stormperson]

Thats only the case to some extent...

Not every car can win, there are alot of cars and driver combo's out there that have proven that. Look what happened when Lemiux went to xray, he basically won every single race he entered. He didnt do that previous to that with losi, or kyosho, and he was still working with Dieter, so Jim wasnt it either. Teemu won a race here and there with Schumacher, but I think you will see we will be doing better on average with xray. Thats not to say xray is the best car in mod hands down, but they have had a bunch of extremely good drivers all working on it and improving it. Who do you think figures out what works? Its not the guys designing the cars, its drivers trying stuff out, I think the TC4 proved that AE had no clue why the tc3 worked. 90%+ of the time certain drivers stumple on good set ups or things that work. You NEED a good race team to improve and develop the car. Club racers who think about racing and maybe spend 10 hours a week at the track max arent going to figure the stuff out that a dozen guys who depend on racing for their living, probably spend on average over 40 hours a week at the track and attend races all year long will.

Look at the RDX, it wasnt fast out of the box, they had alot of issues at the start, it took a while to figure it out. The schumacher cars were hurting in for a while, no one would run for them and then (for stock at least, since every tried running paul wynn's set mod set ups to no avial) Chris Goetz comes along and tries something it works awsome. Now they resign alex lopez as well. Good drivers trying things on the car are what make cars good. Yes they could do okay with any car, but they do alot to improve upon a car to make it work alot better as well, and then you as the consumer gets a good deal of benifit from that. Yes team drivers do help out at a race, but thats not how the serve the consumer best. Its their improvement and running of the car that trickles down to you.

Maybe you are not good enough to notice a difference or it doesnt matter to you personally, but having a good team is probably the most important step for having a good car.

[rccardude04]

I agree with stormperson 100%. For most of us, the car doesn't matter very much. Most people can't tell the difference between a car that's hooked up REALLY well and one that's just driving nicely. These guys can. If you watch them drive, you can tell that the car really does make a difference at a certain level.
When there's an hour long race, and every driver except 3 are within 1 or 2 laps of each other, the car and setup and do make a difference.
-Eric

[rustla]

yeah my uncle races and he is always experimenting with different set ups, and i cant really tell a difference but he can, and a question on RC racing, do they race like they have to do a certain number of laps, or do they have like a time limit and who ever has the most laps done it that time win

[stormperson]

Races are run with a given time, like for electric (except for 12th scale) is a 5 minute race and you run as many laps as possible, so like for instance driver x ran 24 laps in 5:04 he would be slower than driver y who ran 24 laps in 5:02.

And yes if you go to a big race the top 10 are normally seperated by less than 3 seconds, and normally tq is a second or two up on the field, and 4th through 15th is normally within 2 seconds (its not unsual to see 8-10 guys who ran the same time to the second, ie 24 laps in 5:08 but then it came down to the hundredth or thousandths place for quailyfing order), and the first person a lap down is in the D main.