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It is Monday morning here on the West Coast and I am going to make this post relatively short, but please review this important update:
Early in January Steve S. (SCC) kindly connected with me to give me a heads-up that they are working on getting a new Predator ball bearing motor designed & made that will meet the 23k criteria for our proxy and wanted to know if it would be allowed in the series. We agreed that to allow entrants from everywhere to have access to this new motor we would set a deadline of late January to have the motor available, if the motor was not in stock at that time, then it would not be allowed. Unfortunately the motor did not arrive in time and thus we moved on.
However late last week CGYRacer told me that the motor is now listed on Cloverleaf Racing, and after speaking with Steve, it was confirmed that the motor did arrive since we last spoke and it is now being listed and sold. I know that a few people have already placed orders for this new motor, myself included and we are all awaiting it's arrival. Since the motor was only listed late last week, I am doubtful anyone involved with this series (unless they were involved with the testing) has had a chance to run the new motor. On all accounts it looks like a motor that would be a good option for this series, but I have NO IDEA if it would outperform the other options that were available to us earlier.
In the interest of fairness to all those involved, and especially since I have already received cars from countries like New Zeeland, the new Predator 22.5k ball bearing motor will NOT be eligible for this series this year. I trust you will understand, but as always I am open to your feedback. I doubt there will be much impact since most of us are in the final stages of our build and without having had access to this motor, but wanted to get this message out ASAP. I for one is looking forward to receiving mine and testing it, a balanced, ball bearing motor at 22.5k and 174 g-cm looks like a great proxy motor option to me.
Chris
Early in January Steve S. (SCC) kindly connected with me to give me a heads-up that they are working on getting a new Predator ball bearing motor designed & made that will meet the 23k criteria for our proxy and wanted to know if it would be allowed in the series. We agreed that to allow entrants from everywhere to have access to this new motor we would set a deadline of late January to have the motor available, if the motor was not in stock at that time, then it would not be allowed. Unfortunately the motor did not arrive in time and thus we moved on.
However late last week CGYRacer told me that the motor is now listed on Cloverleaf Racing, and after speaking with Steve, it was confirmed that the motor did arrive since we last spoke and it is now being listed and sold. I know that a few people have already placed orders for this new motor, myself included and we are all awaiting it's arrival. Since the motor was only listed late last week, I am doubtful anyone involved with this series (unless they were involved with the testing) has had a chance to run the new motor. On all accounts it looks like a motor that would be a good option for this series, but I have NO IDEA if it would outperform the other options that were available to us earlier.
In the interest of fairness to all those involved, and especially since I have already received cars from countries like New Zeeland, the new Predator 22.5k ball bearing motor will NOT be eligible for this series this year. I trust you will understand, but as always I am open to your feedback. I doubt there will be much impact since most of us are in the final stages of our build and without having had access to this motor, but wanted to get this message out ASAP. I for one is looking forward to receiving mine and testing it, a balanced, ball bearing motor at 22.5k and 174 g-cm looks like a great proxy motor option to me.
Chris
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