To much change to fast is not healthy for any sport. I oppose the hull restrictions because I can't see racing grossly overpowered small hulls. Number one, it's a safety issue IMO, number two it makes hulls obsolete built just last year that were legal. Before someone jumps on me and says I have not tried it, I have run overpowered small hulls before. right after the LiPo proposal passed, that's all I had to run and the result was, I lost one hull to the bottom of Kaiser Cove.
Joerg warned about running 2p LiPo's, the man that has gone faster then any other model boater in history. I warned about 2p LiPo's as did many other F/E racers, many that have now left the sport. Doubling the mah allowed doubling the amp draw and in effect doubling the power. It was a bad choice then for F/E and now the same people are trying to put a bandaid on it to fix the power problem. the same people that support the Hull restrictions are the same people that never gave the F/E racer a choice to run LiPo's unparalleled, it was 2 packs paralleled or unlimited paralleling or you had to vote no for LiPo, those were the choices on the proposal. They accused myself and Joerg and many other F/E racers of fantasy setup's and now they are saying that without hull restrictions people will be running 1527's in 36" N2 mono's???
Is there a silent group out there? Yes, you bet there is, just look at this thread, it's the same dozen people will line up and take pot shots at anyone that opposes their view of F/E's future, just go back and read this thread, or search another thread, it's the rhetoric and ridicule over and over. They beat the dog until the dog leaves and then they give the dogs point of view.
The fact is they were wrong that racers would not use the extra mah allowed by paralleling their LiPo's to increase their amp draw and now they are wrong about making hull length restrictions to tame the power available. Can any racer, nitro, gas or electric honestly tell me that if they could have more power, they would choose not to use it because their hull couldn't handle it?
Dan
2P, 3P, 4P lipo's has nothing to do with it.
I run 2P because I use 20C cells.
30C cells are now out, and 40 or 50C cells just around the corner.
If the rule was only 1P, you would be buying new cells every time higher C count cells came out just to keep up.
Lipo's were to help keep cost down, because they will last about 4 years.
NOT to buy new ones ever time NEW ones came out with more power.
That is what we had with sub "C" cells.
You keep quoting some one that does not race oval in North America or even have Lipo rules in his own country.
Length limits keep the cost down, A person can race on a budget and be competitive with boats of the same length. You can not compete in race water against a boat that is 12" longer then yours that runs the same speed, the hole in the water that he leaves is too big for you to race in.
So we should all build the 36" N2 mono's ($1500.00 each) 1P 40C cells to race, Only untill someone shows up with the 50" boat that cost $4,000.00 that runs the same speed.
Back to P limits - what about the guy that is running A123 cells, he needs 3P to get 30C
We have a guy in our club that came from small planes, he runs 4P 2000 cells.
Are you going to tell these guys that they have to buy new cells to race??
Length Limits work - we have been running them for 2 years now at differant clubs and races around the country.
We had NO problem with MAX Lenght in our rules before, so why now???
Larry
