1s esc from castle

[ta_man]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Besides, many events have banned the new Castle 1S controller for the remainder of the racing season, 'cause we are too fast.

Which I think is totally BS. Punish the manufacturer for making something BETTER for the hobby. What a load.

Originally Posted by lutach

Patrick,

Do you think it's time for a new and better sanctioning body if ROAR has anything to do with this? One that would allow technology to strive. So from what you're saying, Castle's MMP, Tekin's RS/RS Pro, Novak's Kinetic, Team Wave RBs, Orca and AE Black Diamond will all be banned due to the turbo or any other new features?

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

No, this isn't ROAR, it's TOUR and BRL -- the carpet racing guys. The MMP 1S will be legal next racing season (after summer 2010--) But we worked hard to get the 1S on the market before Jan 1st so we would be legal, and then the outlawed us anyway.

And yes, we will be legal for Snowbirds... And it wasn't just us, Tekin's new software, and the Black Diamond were also banned.

So it goes.

Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy

Screw TOUR and BRL, I want to race under the LUTACH rules

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).