Originally posted by Karl the Mechan
If a driver is capable of entering a race, he should be capable of not doing what you just described.
Sadly though, a lot of people that enter a race cannot drive for squat. Just paying an entry fee and dropping a car on the track doesn't mean you have common sense. The rules were made to ptoect the good drivers from the hacks.
Many kids get a buggy, put a modified motor in it and try to race long time drivers. They end up driving so bad they actually cause damage to other peoples cars.
I've seen it happen and I'm glad our tracks ban reverse from ALL but the NOVICE class. Those 9 and younger or having less than 6 months in R/C. But then we also keep kids that have no business racing in the mod class in the NOVICE or BEGINNER class until they learn more.
Originally posted by Karl the Mechan
realizing that I, and the likes of me (who have experience from REAL racetracks, and those cars HAS reverse too) will probably NOT influence what's regarded as a "standard".
As for full size racing, that's hard to compare to R/C. In the beginner types of cars though, like go karts they have no reverse. When you move into stock cars then the drivers aren't 9 years old and have the knowledge not to back a full size car into traffic. I have yet to see a real race car driver under the age of 15 at any track I've been to. If they did, I'd refuse to drive with the kid and ask the kid's parents if they were nuts or not.
R/C is different because we don't jump real cars off 140 foot jumps but we jump 1/10th scale R/C cars of 14 foot jumps all day. Jusr as with the real car you'd never back the car into traffic, with
R/C the beginners don't stop to think about slamming the car into reverse and letting it go where it pleases.