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Originally Posted by TonyM
Thanks Mark - at your suggestion I've emailed Paul.
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OK here is my very last post on the subject.
First:- a massive apology to Mark - you are absolutely correct, there is no ban on reverse for 1/10th off-road. When Frecklychimp mentioned 1.9 it seemed to fit number wise with a rule I had seen (which was in fact 2.11 Micro's) and I went along with the assumption. My mistake, I should have checked first. PM me your address and you will have that bottle of Bolly.
Second:- if reverse isn’t banned, how is it that I’ve never seen anyone use it at any serious points meeting at my club, regional, nationals, F345, Kampenhout etc. Either the drivers are all as unwise as I am to the rules, or they see the sense in not using reverse (many reasons given by others in this thread).
Third:- if reverse were to become common usage, you could bet for sure that LRP with their SXX, Nosram Pearl etc, would make a change pretty quickly to give the driver the option to turn on reverse.
Fourth:- is the reason why I was so interested in this debate. I can go along to local clubs in the week (Ribble-Valley, Denton) and have a good time thrashing my truck and buggies around the track. Rules are lax and there are often newbies who use reverse causing untold mayhem, you put up with it because we all have to learn. Because I don’t attend that often I don’t have the cumulative points and so usually end in the bottom heat. This happened a few weeks ago at Denton, one person put their buggy in reverse and shot onto the straight smack into my buggy going at full pelt – resulting in untold damage. I then managed to get into the A final – came second and not one driver used reverse. You can guess which race I got the most fun out of. So, seeing a National shootout for SCT gave me the impression that if I were to travel 140ish miles to the nearest venue I at least would be amongst drivers who would make the event FUN for me. If all I’m going to get is what I can have in the week locally then I won’t travel.
May I wish you all a very good series.