ROAR approval of non novak ESC's and Motors

Originally Posted by alangsam

Bob, when are you going to do the right thing for the sport and allow competitive designs or step down from being the ROAR approval committee.
This is bad for the sport and frankly makes ROAR look bad which explains the decline of ROAR and of on-road racing. the current spec is dated and smacks totally of protecting Novak - not the sport.

Andy

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.