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Originally Posted by SHY
My personal guess is that it was impossible or not practical to make saddles small enough to fit the size specs.
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Lipo cells are made up of flat layers, usually folded over to fit in whatever case or covering is needed. Making a pack to fit the EFRA smaller dimensions is technically simple, you just make the sheets smaller to start with. The problem is of course that the smaller surface area reduces the capacity, and you would have to change production to make slightly smaller cells specifically for saddle packs which have a relatively limited demand, instead of using the same cells as in the more popular stick packs.
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It know it may sound radical, but I don't see why we couldn't all follow IFMAR rules. EFRA could then just be a sub-organization of IFMAR. Doing what they do today, but all rules would be IFMAR rules.
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The problem with that is that nothing would ever change as all the organisations have to agree to changes.
As an example look at 1/12th scale. We all raced 6 cell in them until as they were getting too fast the BRCA voted in a change to 4 cell. It was successful in the UK, so was then adopted by EFRA and eventually IFMAR. On the other hand at the 2006 worlds an IFMAR meeting tried to change the rules to say that 1/12th worlds should be run on carpet only, like the majority of the world does. Thanks to ROAR disagreeing this change this years worlds was on the TC tarmac track, got low attendance, and the first two cars were the only ones who had tarmac specific tyres.