Yeap, didn't make them any safer or better, it did what it was meant to, that if you were racing at BRCA sanctioned events, if a newer, higher capacity higher average voltage came out, it wouldn't be legal, it made no concession to 'how safe' a cell was.
This thread is definitely suffering from a 'jump on a statement syndrome'....
From reading what Jim has stated, I am GUESSING that only dimensional and weights are checked on a physical battery to give a bench point for checking at a race meeting. If a cell is officially imported into Europe/UK then it must of past the tests that he mentioned. In that respect, all officially imported batteries would of gone through the same rigorous testing surely?
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