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Originally Posted by SHY
Are you saying BRCA will (does?) allow LiPos even if EFRA don't? (And what's important to you might differ from others)
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Yes, the 1/10 OR section has voted to allow lipos whether EFRA approves them or not. We use our own rules and stick to them, regardless to what EFRA does. in 1/12th dropping to 4 cells was a decision made by the BRCA, which was then followed by EFRA and IFMAR in later years. Last year touring cars were running lipos on our EB list in our ProStock class.
If the OR section has voted for lipos they will be allowed at BRCA meetings whatever EFRA says, the only problem is working out what batteries are legal for racing. Whatever specification EFRA approve we will stick to them, if they don't then following ROARs (identical) specification would be the way to go, although it is then debatable whether TP saddles are allowed.
We do find it strange at times that so many European countries just follow EFRA rules rather than create their own which might be more suitable.
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Originally Posted by mark christopher
oddly according to chris we could have run em all this year  |
In theory you can run whatever type or cell you like, in previous years rules just stated a maximum of 6 cells, not what type of cells they actually were or how much voltage they had. Unfortunately this was then limited by the next rule which stated that the batteries must be the EB homologation list, which limited you to nicad and nimh cells.