I'd heard there was a reasonable amount of Mardave activity over on
http://rccircuitcars.com/ so I thought I would post a question on there about Mardave power rules. I know a lot of clubs don't run with 2S and use a 4 NiMh or 1S rule which I personally think is a bad idea. Without going in to detail the thread turned into a complete mess with various stupid comments coming across as seems to be so common on Mardave forums. However there seems there might be an undercurrent of appreciation for the 2S LiPo battery amongst a few clubs, running with a 21.5T motor limit so that the performance is equal to a 1S car on 13.5T. This sounds to me like a really nice idea, and it would possibly pull the Mardaves at our club more into line with what might well be happening BRCA-wide in the future.
At the moment we are running rocket ship Mardaves at Gloucester with way more power than other places seem to be. Maybe
if the Mardaves get much more popular at Glos we should consider a fast and a slow class.
SLOW - 1S 13.5T minimum
SLOW - 4 cell 13.5T minimum or any brushed motor
SLOW - 2S 21.5T minimum
Anything 6 cell or 2S with less than 21.5T is FAST.
This way people wanting to fall in line with the speeds seen elsewhere and possibly also race elsewhere can do so by running in the slow class.
To summarise why there is a little bit of friction with this, running 1S LiPos does not work if you are trying to make a cheap class of racing work. You need an expensive speedo and often also a voltage booster to run your electronics, and even then the 1S packs and are much more heavily stressed than a small 2S. If Mardave continues to be seen as budget racing I don't think 1S is going to cut it.