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The thing is the cars we are all racing have an incredible power to weight ratio for their scale (sometimes far to much power lol). In the states in the stock classes which have low power compared to what we race of course need to be as near to the limit as possible but they travel slower, generally have smoother tracks to race on and don't become as unsettled on bumps unlike cars raced in the uk for example.

7/8 years ago cars had batteries that would just about last the five minutes so any extra weight would impact your ability to finish the race irrespective of the handling of the car itself - to finish first, first you must finish as the saying goes..

Indoors I can see the need to not run as much if any weight where tracks are smoother and cars are more predictable around the circuit but outdoors on most tracks I regularly run my car over 1600g and I am no worse off relative to the people I race against.