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Originally Posted by Cockerill
WRONG
You can't play that card on this one. The racers turned up to the AGM, with rules proposed to get what we wanted. Unfortunately our best knowledge was not enough and we are left with what we have now, which is NOT what the majority wanted.
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Unfortunately these things happen, the racers voted for a sensible rule that meant everyone around the world runs to the same rules. As you said we didn't understand what we have voted for and unfortunately as all the various section AGMs take place concurrently the person who should have been there to point it out was in his own section AGM.
If you reread what I wrote I said that the rules we have are what the racers voted for at the AGM, I didn't state that what was voted for is what they actually wanted when they had time to look over the rules afterwards.
Don't get me wrong, I believe we seriously messed up here as being a new technology we, as racers, didn't actually know exactly what was being voted in. Like in modified touring last year, I'm sure that the dimensions rule would have been changed if a bigger size had been voted in at the EFRA AGM. Unfortunately for Trakpower the battery manufacturers who are EFRA affiliate members and were consulted on lipos are Orion, LRP and SMC, none of them likely to alter the rules to allow Trakpowers.
In a similar way 1/12th oval also made a major mess up. They now have a brushless class which has an £65 brushless ESC price limit, yet have no limits at all on the brushless motors - how mad is that. Both classes have to wait until the next AGM to fix the rules.