Ok, my whole thing or w/e is that the manufacturer's calling them stadium trucks...that's what pisses me off. Why you ask? Well, you asked for it. I go to the track one day to race my xxx-nt. So, I'm practicing and I see these guys pull up in a suv, and get out, and three of them have truggies...or what the manufacturer calls "stadium trucks" so, I watch them drive them around for a little while while my car is cooling off or w/e. The track has a on-site hobby shop, so they all go up to there after driving on the track for a while, and they ask what can they do to make their cars better, so they end up all buying some bowties (AWESOME tires for the type of track) Then, they end up becoming a lot better at driving. I'm sure one of them wasn't a n00b tho, as he seemed to be helping the others out. SO, the track director informs me that we have enough people to race ST for once. So, needless to say, I hurry up and get my stock xxx-nt rtr ready....Yes, it had the stock engine, but it was fine for the track. Anyway, I get to the track for my heat, and I see those guys and a few other ST guys getting ready to race, so I wonder "wtf? o well, they must have just finished running or something..." So, I go and pass over the lap counter loop thing and start racing, and of course I'm only paying attention to what I'm doing, and no body else, but then outta no where, one of the guys hits me w/ his blazer, so I yell at him "WTF?!" and he yells back at me "WTF? GET OUT OF MY WAY, I'M TRYING TO RACE YOU, ASS!" So, I try to ignore it, then I finish my heat, and notice 2 blazers and a Lightning stadium pulling in as well. (along w/ 4 other REAL ST's) Well, I end up in 5th, all the truggies came in 1st, 2nd, and 4th, w/ a rc10gt coming in 3rd. So, needless to say, I'm a little mad that they threw in those trucks w/ me, and the other racers were kinda mad too. So I'm talking to them, and of course we're all talking about what BS it was that they threw them in w/ us. So, they walk up to us, and are just beeing the most ignorant asses you'd ever meet. Claiming that we suck, we got beat by a bunch of n00bs and just really trying to piss us off. And we try to expain to them why they won, and it was because they had much faster vehicles that handled better and such, and no way in hell belonged in our class. And what really pissed us off was them saying that "but we have Blazer stadiums, and a lightning stadium, so they're stadium trucks!" and of course they were just beeing ignorant and not listening to what we had to say whatsoever. And, even the "ringleader" of them was using the same f**king excuse as his newbie friends.
So, I come back next week hoping to have a fair racing expeience this time, but I found out that the same damn people came back, and the race director threw them in w/ us again because the MT guys wouldn't have them in their class, and the kids didn't want to race in the 1/8 buggy class...
Now, I know this is mainly the track's fault, but you can understand if I'm mad at the manufacturers calling them ST's, so n00bs do the same.... HELL, even at the track here since I moved, two more people tried to pull the same poop, and almost got away w/ it...
See, I really don't know why everyone disses the stadium truck guys....I personally really like racing stadium trucks, and I'd like to get back into doing it. Now, they are probably one of the slower classes on the track, but what I like is that they don't cost much to race compared to other classes, they're fun to race (to me), and also easy (again, to me). It's a lot more relaxing than other classes where you're constantly breaking crap, or having to really try hard to do good to the point where it ruins your fun which is what it should be about IMO.....so you can see why I was so mad. And a lot of the other ST guys I race w/ feel the same....