EP
Yeah was easy, went to down to watch in Stoke when I was building my car, people were friendly, spoke to the club secretary, he said no probs as long as I have BRCA membership. For the most part it's generated quite a bit of interest, mainly cuz the car is sooooooo fast and i don't have to mess around with fuel compositions tuning etc, a few people are now converting to electric here!!! The marshals complain sometimes but only because they can't hear my car, nicknamed it 'whispering death' ha ha ha!!!!! There are a couple of disadvantages of running EP: The car is heavy, this is ok in the dry but when it rains it's a real handful handling all that power on very slippery astroturf, great fun though, I can hang my car sideways for the full length of the main straight ha ha (as long as i'm not bothered about my lap times). Battery changes in the final are a pain if you need to do them but apart from that it's all clean and noise free. Motor wise a 2100KV geared correctly will be slightly slower than nitro and 2400KV is faster, I have a 2650KV as well but the run times start getting to be a problem and it's too fast for my ability.
Anyway the point is that I have never encountered any problems at all running my Electric buggy with the nitro boys.
Got my eye on that new Serpant buggy, looks great.
Hope to see you around at some point
Alex
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