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[Mr. M]

Today at a monthly Vero Beach race, there were two 12 Cobalt entries and four brushless, I think 11kV with carbon fiber chassis. The best brushless cars qualified at 2.25 sec, the two 12C were 2.35 and 2.45 sec, I think.

 

By the middle end of the first heat, two of the brushless cars were out with broken cars. By the end of the second heat, the other two brushless cars were out. They came back on and off, with one finishing way back. When one of the brushless cars finished a whole heat, it was about 5 laps ahead for the heat. So overall finish was C12, C12, BL, BL, BL, BL, with three cars finishing. And the two C12 cars finished 10 laps apart.

 

I give the guys running the 2two fastest brushless a lot of kudos, they were prepared, and going up against two guys with 40 years hard experience and very mature cars. But bottom line, the brushless cars have a long way to go in this kind of wing car racing.

 

It was a tough day for the brushless guys.

[Bill Seitz]

I suppose the reason that 11000KV motors were raced against C12 motors is that this was what was locally available. This match-up gives a sizable advantage in RPM performance to the 11000KV motors, so it's no surprise they were faster. A G27/27Lite would be a closer RPM performance equivalent to 11000KV but still probably at a small disadvantage.

[Mr. M]

There are no G27 racers locally, so the C12 and BL went together.