RAISING COSTS OF RACING

[gromit]

As everyone is aware everything is going up in price and RC racing is not excluded, is it time to ask the question regarding the use of a dedicated second buggy as a wet weather car.

In the old days the brushed motor era a wet car was pretty much the same as the dry, the wet referred to the addition of water proofing the electrical components due to the primitive water proofing provided by the manufacturer.

But today the electronic components are pretty well water proof out of the box, may be the rx being not so
the wet car today is primarily for low grip wet conditions and for those that can afford the second chassis and complete set of electronics it gives a significant advantage over the driver that has to adapt his single car to wet conditions.

Being able to adapt the car from dry to wet is not impossible and some will say it is easy and I am talking rubbish, but seeing another driver with a wet car stand up, layback, rear motor and a higher trun motor and ESC setup for low grip does seem to make you think he's got an advantage and you need to follow to be competitive. The main advantage is the wet car works straight away for q1 where changing the dry setup to wet may take a couple of qualifying runs to achieve as good wet set-up and by then you are down the qualifying list.

Consequently we are all spending a lot of money when all we need to do is ban the option to use a second car being used on the same day and convince everyone that matters to drive one car at the meeting, it's an escalation we don't need and helps to keep the cost down and improve racing. BRCA and clubs it's in your court, after all F1 and BTCC don't have spare cars so why do we?