Originally Posted by
dethow
Complicate some... Yes. But not impossible by any means to tech and enforce.
You need to open up a little Darin.
Understood it's not your ideal and it's a compromise, but it'd probably work.
Sigh... I'm dragged back in...
OK, let me just illustrate the issue I have with weight.
National event, day is packed with heats, and heat 1 gets run. I stomp the field in P-LTD OPC Tunnel (not really that hypothetical, in reality... )
Someone protests me on the grounds of having a motor that weighs too much immediately following the heat.
I'm not forced to remove my motor, remove the coupler (precisely positioned to allow just the right amount of end-play in the cable), remove my water jacket (siliconed on? bummer right?), and likely unsolder my connectors, so that I can fight the protest.
I've now missed my next class, and am stuck with a boat that I now have to reassemble in order to try to make heat 2 of OPC Tunnel.
Now, imagine that for a rigger, or something where the motor is CRAMMED inside and isn't so easily removed.
Even if I win the protest, what is the protester out? $25.00? And he's still racing, now not having to compete against me for at least a heat. They surely aren't going to hold Heat 2 just to let me get my boat back in shape. Sounds like a winning strategy to me. You said it yourself: "cheaters are going to cheat."... That doesn't necessarily apply to just using a hotter motor. It's not a competitors strategy. Much easier than "team driving" and taking me out in turn 1.
Sorry, but no. It's a waste of time, in my opinion, and it more than "slightly" over-complicates things.
Darin E. Jordan - Renton, WA
"Self-proclaimed skill-less leader in the hobby."
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