[Paul Bristol]

Just some further thoughts and observations. One of the true assets of the Glos Club is the friendly nature and relaxed attitude in the way it is organised. It is a welcoming club open to all regardless of ability or age. However this has allowed people to run almost anything they bring with no limits. As Shane comments in an earlier “post” we could chose to change this and make racing a little more competitive. My thinking is that currently we do have a growing number of younger members and perhaps it is our role to be more directive in what they run and chose to buy. This is not to exclude anything that they run currently but perhaps it is our responsibility to be more encouraging to follow certain options. Some of the youngsters have cars which are fast and uncontrollable. ( Yes I will take on the chin any comments about myself ) But seriously we have an opportunity with the winter series to lay out our preferences and future direction.
Fully appreciate younger members will in the main already have 2 cell lipo or stick packs and multi cell ESC so perhaps we should encourage Saturn to a certain winding or brushless 21.5t motor limit? Those that want to / can afford go 1 cell 13.5t.
As far as other rules go we can retain the RWYB run what you bring approach to bodyshells, bumbers and the like. Only other thought and this has probably been discussed to death on other forums, safety around non-hard case batteries ? BRCA are still of the view that Lipo’s should be hard cased. I see few to no battery charging bags at Glos when charging lipo’s and even the youngsters using soft lipo batteries. Appreciate battery technology moves on but is this now considered safe ?