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24-05-2008 09:31 PM |
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Originally Posted by jimmy
(Post 127142)
Is that a new rule? it never used to exist - two driven wheels on the same axle - front or rear I thought it was. Front wheel drive is a joke anyway.
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It's been an IFMAR rule since 1987. That year the worlds was on a low grip surface and with tyre technology at the time mean grip was low no matter what you did. Petermann built a special fwd chassis based on CAT parts that showed the potential of fwd cars on low grip surfaces, so the rule was introduced so racers didn't have to have a fwd and rwd car to compete at the worlds depending on the surface.
Anywhere else apart from the worlds you can use fwd chassis, fwd is allowed under BRCA rules.
BTW the Maxxum FF didn't appear until 1989.
And under BRCA rules you can have as many wheels as you like, and for that matter as many motors you like, but you can only use 6 EB approved cells to power it.
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