....and it's a WHOLE NEW EVENT !!!! 
Did you have advance knowledge of this and lay in some LA 15's ?   If not, you're OUT !

Clown Racing was held at The Brodak in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, with entry numbers of 9, 11, 9, and 14.  Not huge, but OK by racing standards, and a positive trend.  In June of 2007 there was talk of changing from "any side exhaust engine, .19 or less" to OS LA 15CL only.
At the time nobody was using the OS, so it meant that everybody would need to buy new engines to continue flying the event.   That was bad enough, but for $75 you could just buy one from Tower and get on with it.

Of course everybody knows that OS has discontinued the engine.  There has been some indication that the RC version might return in the future, but I'll believe that when and if I see it.  I had expected and hoped that the people who drempt up this change would realize that their "engine of choice" had ceased to exist.  Not a matter of making a "wrong decision", just a case of livinng in the real world as it has become.

Are the authors of this change on this forum?  How about the people who flew the event?

This is not a matter of threatening to quit if things don't go my way.  As it sits now, I couldn't get legal even if I was willing to cough up the $75.  I really don't want to try to compete in a racing event by buying up engines off eBay and hoping one will go.  I suspect that at some point downstream, the masters will see the error of their ways and rescind the change, thereby screwing those few who tried to get legal.

Another case of fixing an unbroken event.

Their event and their rules.   I do not see why the requiring an engine that is obsolete as far as some people think.  I see them all the time on the bay.  As the saying goes if you can't beat them, change the rules.  Big Goodyear(used to be Shoestring Racing) is one that comes to mind.  It required Fox Stunt 35 engines and a scale looking profile.  When flown three up it is a crowd pleaser.  Even better with four up.  So somebody comes up with Foxy Racing.  Slow rats with Fox Stunt 35 for power.  The few people don't want to take time to practice and learn how to start the engine and come up with another engine to fly the event.  I do have two of the Brodak planes that were in a way designed for Foxy racing.  They just don't look as good a well finished Shoestring or Buster or the other Goldberg kit.  I have not built for the Clown racing event yet as getting enough people to practice with is like the other racing events.  Even Mouse I is down to maybe 6 entries at a local contest.  What with the custom built reed valve engines.  What with the price of the Cox engines going thru the roof it is going to get worse.   Maybe I may make a proposal to go with the Brodak .049 with separate tank and specify only one prop for use.  I don't like the idea of shrinking venturis to slow an event as I have not seen the TQR's going much slower.  I would have specified a certain prop unmodified except for balancing.  Anyway back to the Redskin for B-Team Race,  may not be the fastest, but, it will be fun.  DOC Holliday

I posted this in the "Open Forum" but thought it would be helpful here too.  The 15LA idea sounds like a good one to me.

For those interested.
From Tower Hobbies:
To get an LA15 then convert to CL retaining the Rear NVA
LXPUD9 OS LA15 $59.99
LXCW98 VENTURI 5.79
LSMU31 NOZZLE 5.79
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$71.57

Or if one wants the front NVA.
Engine, rear cover, and front needle valve.
LXPUD9 OS LA15 $59.99
LXCW98 VENTURI 5.79
LXCR47 Neeedle valve assy 11.49
LXCF83 Rear Cover 15FP/S 3.39
LXCM44 Gasket set 15 FP/S 2.79
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$77.66

Or if you get every thing to do either: $89.24


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