Well, speaking as one of the racer types, on first blush it is irritating to have things outstripping ye race bred highly strung unreliable stripped down etc things that some of the racers (by which I mean myself) are tinkering with.
But when I think about it, not really. Any successful racing relies on technical rules to prevent out and out silliness and establish at least rough parity between everything... in this case, that probably means minimum mass. So the most common race class is going to be for stuff that's approximately car-sized; IC explanations include stuff like a desire to not have people doing stupid things like skimping on life-support or structural integrity to shave mass even farther and whatnot.
So the racers have developed (through tinkering with speedrives past the point of reliability, and experimenting with reaction drives too) some of the fastest things in existence - in their weight class. This may be faster, but it's not legal to race.![[Image: wink.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif)
But when I think about it, not really. Any successful racing relies on technical rules to prevent out and out silliness and establish at least rough parity between everything... in this case, that probably means minimum mass. So the most common race class is going to be for stuff that's approximately car-sized; IC explanations include stuff like a desire to not have people doing stupid things like skimping on life-support or structural integrity to shave mass even farther and whatnot.
So the racers have developed (through tinkering with speedrives past the point of reliability, and experimenting with reaction drives too) some of the fastest things in existence - in their weight class. This may be faster, but it's not legal to race.