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The most significant RC race in recent years is now past us, so where does that leave us now?   Will 1/8-scale off-road continue to be the premiere racing class for the next couple years?  Or will we see less expensive vehicles with scale looks like the Traxxas Slash continue to pull new racers out to the track?
There is no denying the popularity of the Slash, but is the class going to soon suffer at the hands of hardcore racers who stretch the rules? We know of guys giving the 12-turn motors a water dip break-in, swapping out bearings, adding grease to the diffs, running the most expensive lipo packs for extra juice, and hiding other minor tweaks that fly under the "spec class" radar. Personally, I hope the Slash class doesn't turn into the next stock truck class. Right now people are having too much fun racing Slash trucks all over the country, so I think the class will stick around for quite awhile.
By now, I thought brushless 1/8-scale would be the hot ticket, but it's taken companies a lot longer to churn out these new vehicles and conversions than I expected. Will an E-power 1/8-scale class be as big as it's nitro counterpart, I think so. In my opinion, faster, easier, quieter, and cleaner are all reasons that out weigh the noise and smell nitro racers say is missing from electric power.
What about a new class of racing? We will see a new spec class with Team Associated's SC8? It's a combination of what's hot--the Slash and an 1/8-scale buggy. Time will certainly tell!