Short Course Racers Potentially Boycott TORC?

[Krawlin]

Check this out, found this on Pirate4x4.....




I am an avid fan of the Lucas Oil series, and honestly I got really tired of watching TORC a long time ago when the Traxxas head honchos were always the ones winning. Not to mention I can't stand Traxxas as an RC brand either, but that's not the main point of this. Anyway, I just thought this was pretty cool and the guy makes some good points. Now looking deeper into it, this situation is ultimately a company selling products, and they don't want their competitor invading their area and their profits. TORC is Amsoil, Lucas Oil is obviously Lucas Oil. But again, the man makes some good points, and being a long time short course fan, I have to agree with what he has to say. Not to mention the whole TV programming issue, as TORC usually has inconvenient air times for their races. Another thing that irks me about TORC, is two years in a row now they were going to race in Tucson, Arizona (which is local for me), and then canceled the Tucson race only like a couple weeks before it was scheduled. Lucas Oil however frequently has races at Firebird Raceway outside of Phoenix, which I go to whenever I can, and I can't recall any time when they just flat out canceled a race at Firebird and moved the race to a track in a different state (Which is what TORC has done multiple times). In other words, I'm glad to see Lucas Oil asking racers not to race in TORC, because the racers doing more TORC races affects the Lucas series AND the TORC series in a negative way, and I don't want to see Lucas lose their TV schedule and I don't want to see short course racing go down the drain because of that.

So that's my view, what's yours? Discuss.

[FG101C]

They pissed me off when they only held one live event here in Fort Worth back in 2010, none since and Traxxas hq is right here in Plano, Tx. (about 40 miles from Fort Worth).