I was only really writing these as a framework, I don't have the ability to try and organise a section body mainly due to lack of transport.
Not only that, at the moment we do not have enough being raced around the country to even consider their own section. I wrote these to slot into the 1/8 Rallycross rules, so I guess I'd need to contact the section chariman about it, so that clubs who are approached by those with 1/8 electric cars know what to do with them.
To answer your concerns Northy:
2b: A suitable manner is where they cannot fall out, move around etc. If they are held in by a rubber band then obviously this won't work. It's down to the conscience of the suitability scrutineer as to what passes and what doesn't. I suppose that by a scrutineer would work, but I was also writing these for clubs - at the end of the day, it's their decision whether they allow them to race or not. If the club don't feel the batteries are retained in a safe way, then they aren't allowed to race.
Also, I wanted to keep it quite open, as many people have invested a lot of time and money into this already, if I simply said that they must be retained in a battery box with velcro straps, then this eliminates those people who have (perhaps) come up with something different or even better.
2i: These are also construction guidelines for users. Directly-soldered would be more efficient than using connectors, and this was to also clarify that people are allowed to direct solder, as well as use connectors.
2j: Hmmm - I need to correct that, though it is best if 4mm Corallys aren't used. People need to understand that they run far better on dedicated LiPos. I can see many people just putting any old 1/10 packs in there and destroying them. If you are running two seperate packs in series or parallel, they must be the same age, condition, same number of cycles etc. It is sometimes easier if you just get new LiPos.
6: Oh, maybe! We could decide names later. My original thought was technical scrutineer person. So I'd need some help with names (for all the difference that it makes).
11: The reason for this is that the US has FAR more experience with 1/8 off road electric than us, so I copied their format. Also, I always saw Rallycross as much as an endurance event as an all out race. If you are allowed to drop a result, it defeats some of the point in my opinion.
11q: That's one thing that I'm not sure on yet. At my club's AGM, we decided that an electric in a nitro heat is dangerous as they are hard to hear over the nitro noise. I argued that you should use your eyes and have an awareness about you as well. I put that in there as a rule should a club want to enforce it. I'd rather that an electric is allowed to run, rather than be turned away. I guess it'd just be a cheap 6V buzzer type device (probably from Maplin) that'd plug into the receiver. They don't take much power to run, and if they are the right pitch, would be discernable from nitro.
11r: I will admit you're the first person to say that (not just on this thread). Basically, if running without stopping, the electric must be called in for a pit-stop by race control/the referee at some point (when the pit lane is clear preferably), and then be picked up, before being allowed to continue. This is to prevent cars from using the pit lane as another main straight which is potentially dangerous.
I don't know about setting up a section yet, I don't think I'm the right person for it to be honest.
Simon
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