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Bill I have complete respect for you and the reply as I have seen you as a positive influence towards the FE class. I commend you for that. And your right, I do have minimal race experience...have I heat raced, yes. Unfortunately, driving 4 hours for every district race, or further is not in my cards, esp. not this year. Loosing my day job recently has not helped anything either. Would I love to have the money and time to do more racing, absolutely. Like I was saying tho, I have some of the best drivers, SAW racers, and oval trial people in my corner and they give me the feedback I need to make sure I get done what I want to accomplish, which is having a strong competitive hull. I take a lot of pride in making others enjoy my tunnels, and there are around 30 of them floating around all over the country right now that have been built this year alone. If that is all I get out of RC boat racing is hearing others stories of success with something I built, I am cool with that and have absolutely no regrets in some of the other things I am not accomplished in!
Now Mic,
First, I don't know you, I have never met or spoke to you and the Charleston situation you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. I didn't back down from anything. You don't know my situation, so please spare me thinking you do. As I politely told Bill above, you don't know my financial situation or ability to go to out of town events and get more wheel time. For the last 3 years I have had to do everything my now EX company asked of me to keep my job due to their workload loss. I have had to fear taking off time for fear of loosing my job, so please don't act like you know me as I really do take offense to that. So again, if you need to discuss why I don't race, or past situations that quite honestly, did not involve you, please, PM or call me and GET to know me instead of hearsay. You might actually learn something from the "new" guy. Just asking for a just a little credit here. Not trying to ruffle feathers, remember, this is all friendly chatter!!!
Back to the motors. The thing I do know, is many, many FE racers came up with the rules on motors. They did this based on two motors that consistently proved reliable, with similar 500 watt capabilities (not 1000watts as mentioned somewhere previously). The motors I am hearing in this thread are way more power than either of these. I have run other brands of motors, and as far as I am concerned, and I too hate supporting a monopoly type situation, but the simple fact is, more guys are out on the water racing because of the day in and day out reliability of these motors and esc's that AQ and Proboat make. Aq and Proboat has done a fantastic job keeping a level of consistent quality. When you start mixing in 1000watt motors the whole thing gets messed up. All the sudden guys wanna run bigger more stable hulls in the Spec class, so now we have not only the motor out of wack, but hull size could potentially become an issue. Its a fine balance, and right now its working, and relatively consistent across the country. I will tell you what, the reliability alone makes a $20 increase still a small issue in the realm of things. I love Neu motors, but for the price, and inconsistent quality, its kind of hard to deny Aq and Proboat have it going on in some respects.
I know you guys in Florida are doing some P and Q racing, and I think that is absolutely great, but I think leaving alone a class that has done absolutely great is an even better idea. Just make sure these additional classes are specified as being something totally different, as I think that may be where some people are getting confused on the ultimate goals of these conversations.
Again, look, I do not want this personal. These boats are suppose to be fun. I have been singled out a lot up here, had threats made to directly to me (yeah, before the Charleston race 2 years ago) most every time I post about a tunnel hull and most always from the same general group. Threats? Over a toy boat, Really??? In the past I have tried to talk to those that felt the need to make comments on the phone, gave them my phone #, and all they would do is continue to harass me hull choices and my experience behind the computer instead of getting to know me via phone or in person. How childish is that??? Sorry if I wronged any of you for not continuing to run your brand of hull, or not promoting it. It was a choice I made because it was not the boat I wanted to run. It seems that situation will never go away.
I have a blast doing the part I do for the race community and it would be really awesome if some of those who will look past the petty "brand" issues, and see the positive things I am trying to provide. Is it really that hard to just enjoy this stuff and enjoy some of the good rules and reasons we do have????
Mike
(252) 717-6282
Now Mic,
First, I don't know you, I have never met or spoke to you and the Charleston situation you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. I didn't back down from anything. You don't know my situation, so please spare me thinking you do. As I politely told Bill above, you don't know my financial situation or ability to go to out of town events and get more wheel time. For the last 3 years I have had to do everything my now EX company asked of me to keep my job due to their workload loss. I have had to fear taking off time for fear of loosing my job, so please don't act like you know me as I really do take offense to that. So again, if you need to discuss why I don't race, or past situations that quite honestly, did not involve you, please, PM or call me and GET to know me instead of hearsay. You might actually learn something from the "new" guy. Just asking for a just a little credit here. Not trying to ruffle feathers, remember, this is all friendly chatter!!!
Back to the motors. The thing I do know, is many, many FE racers came up with the rules on motors. They did this based on two motors that consistently proved reliable, with similar 500 watt capabilities (not 1000watts as mentioned somewhere previously). The motors I am hearing in this thread are way more power than either of these. I have run other brands of motors, and as far as I am concerned, and I too hate supporting a monopoly type situation, but the simple fact is, more guys are out on the water racing because of the day in and day out reliability of these motors and esc's that AQ and Proboat make. Aq and Proboat has done a fantastic job keeping a level of consistent quality. When you start mixing in 1000watt motors the whole thing gets messed up. All the sudden guys wanna run bigger more stable hulls in the Spec class, so now we have not only the motor out of wack, but hull size could potentially become an issue. Its a fine balance, and right now its working, and relatively consistent across the country. I will tell you what, the reliability alone makes a $20 increase still a small issue in the realm of things. I love Neu motors, but for the price, and inconsistent quality, its kind of hard to deny Aq and Proboat have it going on in some respects.
I know you guys in Florida are doing some P and Q racing, and I think that is absolutely great, but I think leaving alone a class that has done absolutely great is an even better idea. Just make sure these additional classes are specified as being something totally different, as I think that may be where some people are getting confused on the ultimate goals of these conversations.
Again, look, I do not want this personal. These boats are suppose to be fun. I have been singled out a lot up here, had threats made to directly to me (yeah, before the Charleston race 2 years ago) most every time I post about a tunnel hull and most always from the same general group. Threats? Over a toy boat, Really??? In the past I have tried to talk to those that felt the need to make comments on the phone, gave them my phone #, and all they would do is continue to harass me hull choices and my experience behind the computer instead of getting to know me via phone or in person. How childish is that??? Sorry if I wronged any of you for not continuing to run your brand of hull, or not promoting it. It was a choice I made because it was not the boat I wanted to run. It seems that situation will never go away.
I have a blast doing the part I do for the race community and it would be really awesome if some of those who will look past the petty "brand" issues, and see the positive things I am trying to provide. Is it really that hard to just enjoy this stuff and enjoy some of the good rules and reasons we do have????
Mike
(252) 717-6282
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