Why am I slow?

[kazuaki]

I'll also try 0 timing today. Like I said, the ESC came defaulted to 15 degrees and I read on the Neu site that my motor should be 0-10 degrees. So, I will run 0 degrees this morning, on a much longer wider road. As for tires, I thought I was doing the right thing by getting belted slicks. They definitely don't seem to balloon. As for pushing the limits of what the car is capable of, based on other peoples efforts that is not true. I'm not even close to where I should be. I seriously expected 20MPH more than I'm getting.

I'm seriously wondering about the ESC now. IF I am able to hold it wide open today and it doesn't go a bunch faster, then I wonder if I'm hitting some current limit on the ESC or something.