Bump ups

[Ritchie T]

How come 10th scale doesnt adopt it?

[Col]

Cos I only have 1 set of lipo...

[Steve]

Col You have 2 sets

[daz]

Originally Posted by Steve

Col You have 2 sets

Lol, thats just pissed on Cols bonfire

[Col]

1 of the old ones has swelled a little.

[SlowOne]

Here's why we didn't do it the last 'n' times it has been discussed since 19-frozen-to-death...

It is incompatible with restricted numbers of cells each driver has. Each driver would need to have about four sets 'just in case', where they can get away with two now. In the past it was about round cells not liking the second or third run of the day, topping them up, etc.
It puts lots of additional strain on drive trains, motors and suspension systems that mean those who get a bump start spending more than those that don't.
It is incompatible with the control tyre Rules. Either you allow more sets (so people tactically qualify low and arrive at their final Final on a new set) or you stick to the sets you have and people fail to get their second/third bump because they are competing with people who are on newer tyres.
Some people get a lot more racing for their money, mostly because they couldn't drive as well in the four rounds of qualifying they were allocated.
Driving standards drop as the desire to get that first place, and the bump, overrides any thought of being sportsmanlike to the other guys on the track.
What's it for? If you can't put it out there in qualifying; if you can't prep a car so it doesn't break down; if you can't drive with the other guy in mind and avoid the accident (watch the top guys...); if you don't have enough to qualify in the final above, why should you be rewarded for those failures?

And, with that in mind, we voted 'no' every one of those 'n' times since 19-frozen-to-death someone proposed bump-ups...

[Fast Eddie]

Originally Posted by Col

1 of the old ones has swelled a little.

Sounds like my wife

[dale]

Originally Posted by Ritchie T

How come 10th scale doesnt adopt it?

10th electric or 10th IC?

Electric touring cars don't do it as the motors/ESCs are already on the limits of temperature after 5 minutes.

Also it's possible that you could bump up several finals if you'd had poor qualifying, so you may suddenly find yourself needing 4 charged lipos, which few of us have.

[Ritchie T]

Originally Posted by dale

10th electric or 10th IC?

Electric touring cars don't do it as the motors/ESCs are already on the limits of temperature after 5 minutes.

Also it's possible that you could bump up several finals if you'd had poor qualifying, so you may suddenly find yourself needing 4 charged lipos, which few of us have.

For example say 2wd buggy. If you had a couple of fully charged 5000 mah lipos you could get 4 runs easily. I cant speak for other peoples 2wd buggys but mine isnt touring car hot after 5 minutes.

Also theres a couple of minutes gap between finals usually. Blast em with fans, dont do warm up laps?

Would give you a glimmer of hope if you had a really bad day. You could place somewhere better, instead of being eager to get it over with and go home.

[clumsysaint]

i get what your saying ritchie..........can someone tell me why the 2wd buggy a-finals guys get 3 finals,where all the others only get 1 final.

[Jonesy]

Originally Posted by clumsysaint

i get what your saying ritchie..........can someone tell me why the 2wd buggy a-finals guys get 3 finals,where all the others only get 1 final.

That's been about in Nationals for as long as I can remember.

If you're talking about the Mid-West series I know we try to run the series as similar to Nationals as the guys can.

The idea being if you wanted to do the Nationals then you have an idea of the format etc....