Cant wait to run my tekno sct410 this weekend, its dialed right outta the box.

Wow this whole D3.5 17.5 ROAR vs Trinity deal has been nuts over the past few days. I have read every page (almost 60) of the topic on rctech. Mostly random racers posting up their .02 but there is some good bits of info in there. Did Trinity change the wire specs after they submitted the originals for apporval? Loophole or poorly written ROAR rules? WIREGATE?!?! Grey areas? Poor test equipment used by ROAR? Conflicts of interest? Oh my gosh we have heard it all at this point. We may never fully know exactly what has happened. Who knows what will happen or not happen regarding this issue in the days, weeks, and months to come.

What we do know is that this is an unfortunate circumstance for the racers and shops/track that end up having to make decisions. The motors were submitted to ROAR and were approved. Whether they should or should not have been approved, the public was under the impression that they were good to go. Many racers spent their hard earned money buying shiny new purple motors for their rides. Not everyone chose to go that route. But it seems the majority have.

At Delta we always want to offer a fair, fun place to come a enjoy your hobby. We recognize that the D3.5 is a very popular choice in the 17.5 buggy class class and after weighing our options we have decided to allow the motors for the remainder of the winter series. After the series is over, and if ROAR's ruling still stands, the motors will not be legal for any of our club race events.

We realize that for those of you not running the D3.5 motors, this may seem unfair. Maybe it is. We want to do what we feel is best for the class and racers overall at this time. We feel that the racing in the 17.5 class is currently some of the best racing there is and everyone is really having a good time with it. We'd hate to spoil the good thing that is happening right now. We all know Emard can and has won with a motor other than the D3.5 and many other fast racers are using other brands as well. Lets continue to race hard and HAVE FUN.

We will still be enforcing the Roar approved motor list and the d3.5 will still be approved on "our" list for the remainder of the winter series. Please understand that this decision was not made on a whim and we truly believe that this is what is best for our racers at this time. We thank you all for your continued support and hope to see you all at Round 5 Jan 26th.

Thanks! Hopper

 

 

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Donnie can bring the finger nail polish. He's got quite the selection from pics I've seen. Lol. :-)

lmfao! maybe the ones sent to delta we're extra special...

Word is if you bought it at delta your legal, if not then your screwed.  Shop local I always say

 

 

 

 

hah, what'd kraig have to say? whats the verdict...

If my wife finds out I stole her nail polish to tech rotors I'm a dead man.

 

 

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If the rotors really need to be checked, why not just check the motors once and then seal them for the rest of the season.

Cool thx kp

 

 

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I don't think all rotors should be checked. Let's not get crazy.But top 3 should be. Or at the very least the winner and tq. Or if someone's car is obviously faster than the rest then yes they should be checked. I'm 100% sure Chris's motor is legal, but check it anyways just to give the rest of the guys the peace of mind that he is. Then they know to work on driving and setup more and not worry about his motor.

And I'm more than willing to help out in tech. Just let me know.

Frist off I have no dog in the fight I don't run 1/10 at all and I find all this a bit silly.  rules are rules ROAR does not always show good judgement and there may be more to the story than we all know but DRC is a Roar track and Roar's rules are the ones we chose to go by more or less. maybe you guys should just vote on it at the next race. yes or no for the last 3 races and after that go by the Roar rules. 

 keep in mined these are TOY CARS  and it's the RD's call in the end you can chose to play or not. good luck

 

 

yea so did i, just 100.00 paperweights after the race. Glad they didn't pull this before nationals and i had just bought 4 or 5 more of these....

They are being allowed at the snowbirds, saw the announcement on the onroad thread.

your comment contribute's absolutely nothing of value to this conversation todd,

these are roar's rules they chose to ban a motor with absolutely no pre warning to the public. this isn't nascar our crew chief didn't build a motor slightly out of spec. no one had any clue the wires we're out of spec. sure we'd all heard rumors but nothing concrete to make me buy another 100.00 motor.

hopper said they might temporarily enforce this ruling, these are'nt roar event's here and we're in the middle of a series. Which some of us are currently spending quite a bit of money to run. not to mention that we have to order motors or stators and hope/ pray that they get here by friday.

feel sorry for the guy's attending snowbirds that just bought 2-3 more of these.

Rules are rules . Follow them or run mod .....

it's all in your imagination Mr Smith, My cars slow every once in awhile i have my moments... I couldn't make that triple if my life depended on it with the rb6 jason. My b4 with all the parts on it has absolutely no problem clearing that triple with ease if i can carry enough speed through the rhythm section.

on an electric saturday, what time are you guys finishing up?

 

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I haven't seen any real difference between the d3.5's and the other motor's ran except for freightdriver's, but he can't drive so who cares(kidding Josh).  Chris could make the the triple with the VST and the d3.5 so no real difference. Mine was really not a noticable difference, I still can't make the triple???  I say you let the racer's decide and I vote that they stay legal the rest of the series since we started it thinking they were.

Spoke to kraig about it last night briefly. I'll let you guys know what the official word is asap.

 

 

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whats the word on the d3.5 hopper, we getting a grace period?