Look, I'm not trying to bust your chops Chris, so read this as if we were hanging out at the fire or something.
Yes, yes it does. You have rear dig. You know from years of competing: massive suspension travel isn't necessary for crawling competitions, and full hydro is not a huge advantage compared to assist on a rig that weighs between 2640-3000 lbs.
Assist works great on my stripped down 4200lb rig. There are rigs in Legend that weigh over 6000lbs. A tube buggy has a huge advantage.
Please read the promod rules. F-toys would be very competitive.
Just because you picked leaf springs and assist doesn't mean it's not a buggy. Look at the overall scores.
Look at the class rules. Putting an Ftoy rig in legends is a blatant disregard to them. So what you have leaf springs and assist? Half the Legends class runs leaf springs, assist and doesn't even have dig at all.
You make it seem like it's putting you at a disadvantage.
Jinx is absolutely right: F-toys have zero body = huge advantage.
But truly the only real measuring stick is overall scores.
Please looks at the math: math is factual.
Here are some figures:
2013 FToy class winner scored a -110? Ya... that's 57 points less than the legend class winner. (Let me put that into perspective: Ftoy winner could have entirely skipped 1 course and still won)
The average point spread between rigs in Ftoys and Legends (that fully competed both days)?
2013
FToy points average -70 + Legend points average 62 =
132 points difference
2012 + 2013 = 2 years average points
Ftoy points average -22 + Legend points average 71 =
93 points difference
93 point spread.
Even with a 30point penalty; it's not competitive, it's like allowing a gun in a knife fight...
It opens up a can of worms for judges, do they allow every driver that has cut off the body on whatever rig and now wants to run Legends? :sick:
The Legend class vehicles are essentially trail rigs that are just outside of street legal or run a larger than 37" tire. (There were Legend rigs last year that were plated street legal.)
NOT specialized competition tube buggies.
66% stock body and frame is what defines the Legends class. Period.
I say, either step it up to promod and have a competitive class.
or
Quit saying how FToy's are "special" and allow F-toy look-a-like rigs in the "FTOY class, (that includes factory linked rigs like Seth's (iamsparticus) or Jeeps, etc. with bodies chopped off).
(To examine my figures: I threw out Quentin Morse's, Seth Johnson's, and Derek Pace's results because they had 4 or more courses at 50points and with those figures we can safely assume they didn't fully compete the second day)
