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Originally Posted by super__dan
Right, to quote Steve (Chairman);
'We are running to BRCA electric board rules
E.G no lipo
Stephen'
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Dan, that's possibly the most crazy thing i've read in this interesting thread ! People who attend Batley CLUB meetings are there for a bit of fun, and anything that makes things easier is a big plus in my eyes. You seem to be hung up on the it's not fair cos it's higher voltage' thing, but please spare me. I'll tell you what's not fair, and that's turning up at a batley summer outdoor meeting to be racing against mainly sponsored / supported drivers that outclass you (or rather me
) and out pace you in every respect, running lipo isn't going to make a bit of difference here and I bet I'd still get overtaken down the straight !
I like the idea of lipo as it seems like it could be a good way of leveling the playing field in terms of speed of our cars, I believe in brushless for the same reasons. When I get around to attending batley I hope to be running lipo and hope others will do the same. I have run one in my tourer and all I can say it's totally brilliant in every respect, one battery for a full meeting is brilliant and I resent the fact that I will need to shell out on a load of NIMH cells to run the regional offraods this summer, especially as they appear to be so fragile and possibly dangerous. I accidentally shorted my Trakpower lipo whilst it was fully charged, managed to loose the battery out of my tourer whilst racing (crazy tape stuff came away) and generally have given it a hard time, i.e charging it again directly after racing. It's performed faultlessly and hasn't so much as gotten warm !
Lipo is the future, more to the point it's here so lets use it ?