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Originally Posted by ta_man
With all due respect to Patrick (and that is a lot!), the comments above indicate you just don't get what this is about.
The reason for the carpet racers to go to 1S to begin with was to slow down the cars and have different speed classes with the available motors. So there is a 17.5/1S class for beginners, 13.5/1S class for intermediate skill drivers and a 10.5/1S class for experts.
The Advanced Timing speedos like the Mamba Max Pro threw that out the window by making the 17.5 as fast as the 13.5 was and the 13.5 as fast as the 10.5 was. So to keep the speeds the same for this season TOUR and BRL recommended against (or banned) the A.T. ESCs.
The plan is next season to drop down one more wind for each class and use 21.5/1S for beginner, and so on.
They would rather have people continue to race this season with classes they already fit into than have people quit because the cars are too fast.
For carpet racers it is not about how fast you can go, leaving other cars in the dust, it is about having close competitive racing (at least to the extent possible given the skill of the competitors).
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I have to agree with this one, but how is this fair for the manufacturer? If Castle has a better product then the over priced ones, then it would be awesome for Castle to enjoy some profit, not on a over priced unit, but one made here in the US. Not only that, a lot of LHS would also enjoy selling some more ESCs in these hard times. I know they're struggling, so a ESC like the MMP which is not expensing, would be nice for them. When I raced a Xtreme RC Addicts, I used my 21.5T motor with 4 cell NiMH and everyone else was running a 17.5T or 13.5T with 1S lipos. My car was not set up properly, but I could still keep up with them. So would my ESC be banned as well and it doesn't even have A.T. in it?
Edit: So how many ESC are there without A.T. at them moment? Novak and Losi?