ORIGINAL: wookie_racer
one truck will kill the class faster than you can say "slash". who cares if the is a new truck out? i mean there was no pissing and moaning about new trucks and spec this spec that until all the slash boomers. let the class grow. there is no need for a slash class...if you cannot drive or are on a budget, run novice but dont make another useless class.
Classes grow and evolve based on people, not hardware. Allowing more hardware, or greater diversity of hardware, won't necessarily grow the class, more that's what might kill it off or just lead to the 'vehicle of the month' crazes of racing past. If the slash/SC10 ends up like the Rustler/T4 matchup, then tracks would be wise to keep a slash-only class around and that class is likely to be more popular than the 'open CORR' class. Now if enough slashes raced in the open class and the slashes were good enough to be contenders, than the classes might just evolve that way. Ultimately a lot could happen, I know we have slayers and even SC8s racing in the open class at one of our local tracks and a bone stock slash has still won it. But if there is a real gap, eventually driving abilities improve to the point where that gap is felt most... Tracks that try to race those flawed classes where not enough people can or have the hardware to be contenders, regardless of what most people want to race, those are the tracks that fade away in time.