I know that a lot of you race brushless on a weekly basis at your local track and not just the BRL series alone. Getting a new class started without diluting your existing field of racers is hard enough but with brushless being a completely new program, how did you get it started? Did you run with your existing Stock or 19T class until there were enough to run separately? Or just how did you get it started?

The winter before last there were about 5 of us who went out and bought 4300s and started racing. Yeah it diluted things a bit. there were a couple of us who would have been running 19T and a couple others who would have been running stock. But as time went on more and more people joined up and and now it is BL only.

I guarantee you'll have people complain about diluting things. If someone wins consistently he'll be called a sandbagger by a few. Eventually though if you put up with it and keep having a good time pretty soon everyone will join you.

BL has certainly changed many of the classes here in Michigan. All of the fast guys that ran 19t switched to 4300 within a few months when the first Novak 4300 came out. Within a year the 19t pancar class went away. We now have a 13.5 class and a 4300 class for BL. However, we do still have a spec class for newbies. Spec [brushed] motor Spec batteries and Spec tires.
We also have a BL truck [5800] and buggy [5800] class.

I don't recall any complaints. BL has produced the most competitive and enjoyable racing I've been involved in ever.
Especially the BRL series. If you ever get a chance to make even one of those events you will not be disappointed.

I was against it at first. For a variety of reasons. But once you run it a few times. Brushed motors are all but extict in my mind. I don't want to think about them or work on them anymore. The fact that you can go to a track and bring one motor and never take it out of the car, just blows my mind. Of course, Brushless Brown had to tear everyone down last time! Heck, once you've run at a couple different tracks and have a idea on what you gearing needs to be you don't even have to change the gear unless you make a drastic tire size change. The motors are not real sensitive to minor rollout changes, being .01-.04 difference in rollout isn't going to make or break a good handling car.