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Originally Posted by cutting42
Some excellent points but they rely on putting off road into the same performance critical status as on road. It is a bit speculative as even a current shortie at 4500mah could easily do an 8 minute main with room to spare and saddles even more.
Being new (ish) to this I have never experienced a battery (or anything else) of the month war which it sounds like many of you have. I can see a picture in my head of racers hurling batteries across a race track at each other 
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When I started my car would dump at 4m30s without fail... Highly frustrating, especially when others could do 2 warmup laps, drive 100% and still have power left.
I admit, the rules may seem outdated at the moment, but the reason for why they're there is solid, and will stop a similar poor situation arising in the future. The rules are there to help the customer based on previous experience.