Your correct Bill. I brought this up to the Tampa club for the upcoming race and they immediatly corrected the oversite. Orlando should do the same.
Rule book = "There must be a minimum of three (3) paid entries for any class to be considered legal, and to be run for District High Points."
However with only 2 of the 11 nitro classes over the min of 3 (4 entries each) I do agree with some of Daves comments. "special treatment" and "hostage to there demands" are pretty harsh words.
I have been running nitro boats for 40 years this year. I have been thru the battles over the changes fom marathon racing to heat racing, muffeled/tuned pipes, allowing tunnel boats as a class, allowing gas boats as a class and on and on but this gas versus nitro is just out of line.
2 years ago I built a gas mono and i am here to tell you it fast became apparent why gas has grown and is growing.
In all of this time only 2 gas boaters, ONLY TWO out of hundreds, have made negative remarks to me about nitro. One of them is the same guy who hung up on Otto and the other has backed off his attitude.
It's a HOBBY!!!. We all put our pants on the same way. We all share the challange and fun of RC boat racing. It doesn't matter if it's FE, Tunnel, gas or Nitro.
The tunnel boaters just held a tunnel only race in Brandon and it was a rousing sucess and looks to be bigger next year. Maybe thats what will happen with the other nitro classes. Time will tell.