The Retired Report – RC Racing is COOKED
You heard what I simply stated, rc racing is COOKED. It’s BENT AF, because it has now change into actually a race to extinction. Who allowed this to occur? Why doesn’t anybody truly repair it? Welp, I’m Cubby, and welcome to an excellent ole’ normal Cub Report. Let’s begin ranting, lets?
You could not have seen, however in 2024 there have been not one, however two IFMAR world championships cancelled. The powers that be allowed the IFMAR worlds to come back to an entire standstill throughout Novid-19 (WTFreak!!!), and now, they’re cancelling world championship occasions as a consequence of low attendance and numerous different issues. Recently the IFMAR fifth scale fuel and 1/10 nitro world championships (which now has been moved to Bangkok) received the axe, and the opposite world occasions, will not be anticipated to have excessive ranges of attendance any time quickly.
IFMAR world championships are imagined to be the head of our sport. Yet, the powers that be, deal with them like rubbish. WC races are sometimes held at slightly sketchy venues, in locations that no person desires to go. Can you blame actual racers for simply staying at house?
However, I feel extra so, folks have left racing, or refuse to leap into the melee, as a result of racing hasn’t modified since its inception. RC racing has by no means advanced. The final time I raced, possibly 3 years in the past, it actually wasn’t a lot totally different from racing again at R & R Hobbies in Quincy Illinois wayyyyyyy again within the day. And whereas racing again within the 80s actually was a blast, it’s FREAK’N 2024 now days! Society modifications over time, our race rigs are a lot totally different, tracks are a lot totally different, but, we nonetheless have “in less than 5 at the tone”.
From native racing, to the large time, rc racing simply carry on getting smaller. So, why gained’t anybody repair it? When I take a look at the individuals who “run” racing, they simply don’t care. Their imaginative and prescient is much too small, they assume simply holding an occasion is sweet sufficient, no matter what number of entries there are, and nearly zero time is spent on folks truly having “fun”. It’s change into nothing however a money seize, with that money pile principally shrinking to nothing.
Many, a few years in the past, I stated that if Traxxas had been to leap into the size recreation, they’d crush it. That’s precisely what they did. Now days, with the business on a downward development, all corporations are searching for new income streams. My fingers appear a bit reluctant to sort this sentence, but when Traxxas had been to ever resolve to leap into the racing recreation, and I’m not taking about producing race automobiles right here, I’m speaking placing on an precise race sequence, ROAR and any/all of the others are D O N E. Traxxas would do it proper, with large promotion, strong venues, and strong pay-outs/trophies/and many others. To any and all within the rc racing recreation, severely guys, you retain screwing round working issues into the bottom, and another person WILL begin chopping the checks wanted to make a LOT of money off of rc racing. The sport of rc racing is inherently FUN, severely it’s, however you’d by no means get that feeling if you happen to went to any rc race now days. I feel if Traxxas had been to ever get into the occasion promotion recreation, not solely would the racing be extra reliable and truthful, they’d additionally most likely handle to retain the enjoyable a part of it. I’d doubt I’d see random racers cursing some marshal at one among their occasions, or some drivers throwing a brand new transmitter throughout the pits. I’d guess I’d see a bunch of latest faces truly ENJOYING competing in opposition to others with toy automobiles.
To boil it down, racing group, you screwed all of it up. You didn’t change, you didn’t evolve, you saved hitting the repeat button till solely the fellows with gray hairs would present up. You left a lot MONEY on the desk due to your lack of diligence, and extra so, lack of a imaginative and prescient going ahead. I don’t understand how rc racing goes to end up, however proper now, I don’t know if it lives one other 5 years. Seriously, I can’t see excessive stage rc racing going ahead like it’s right this moment.
However, as John “Bluto” Blutarsky as soon as stated, “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”? We all realize it’s not over till it over. Will the powers that be take a step again and notice GIANT modifications are wanted? Will some massive multi-million greenback firm simply step in and do the job for them? My crystal ball got here from Wish, so it don’t work so nicely, however me for one, I don’t wish to see rc racing die. And that’s precisely what it’s doing proper now. The Bat sign has been put up, will anybody reply the decision???????
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