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Originally Posted by cmcclive
If the current spec is there to protect Novak it is sure doing a bad job....
All of the "usual suspect" ROAR manufacturers have a ROAR legal motor.
Associated, Losi, Novak, Trinity, Tekin, Hacker and Schumacher all have stock motors, for modifieds you can throw in Orion and Hobbico as well.
I don't understand why certain manufacturers (perhaps based in the heartlands) think it is fair that ROAR changes to meet their needs. If they truly want to be involved in ROAR racing they could have come up with something that was ROAR approved by now.
I am sure at some point the rules will change, but then everyone will have to come up with something new. You cannot run a racing organization without rules so that cars can be quickly inspected, so there will always been rules.
Additionally with any bureaucracy change is slow. You cannot expect ROAR to have gone from brushed (turn based) motors straight to rpm/kv motors.
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i appreciate your response. Isnt Bob head of the committee?
as an active on-road racer i am interested in the advancement of the technology. the current spec requires everyone to exactly replicate/copy the novak motor design down to the colors of the wires. this is not required to keep the integrity of the inspection process. this is an older design and frankly when you look at the motors you have listed they are basically identical. yes some of the OEM's have indeed done this but it isnt moving the sport forward and creating the environment to push the envelope. Why would they want to spend R&D to produce something with no differentiation other than the amount the brand can carry? We should expect ROAR to go from one to the other. They desperately need to move to avoid becoming irrelevant. It hasnt happend because Novak chose to promote the older design which is all they have vs change to rpm/kv.
I suspect as soon as novak decides to produce such a design ROAR specs will change, not before then. This is very obvious to the racing community.