Norwegian Federation halts all EP Racing
The Norwegian Federation has taken the rather drastic measure of calling a halt to all races and training for electric powered classes following 3 charging related ‘explosions’ at a 1/10th scale National last weekend. According to the source on oOple.com, a lot of the failures have occured in the past with the IB4200 cell, however the most recent failures that prompted this ban on racing were LRP VTecs and Team Orion 4200, both IB made cells. All racing will stay suspended until January 2008, although I’m not sure what will be different from then until now, perhaps a list of approved cells?
UPDATE: We have received an official press release from the NMF which you can download here (PDF).
Photo: Radiostyrt [forum.radiostyrt.no]
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1. sf - November 8th, 2007 at 00:02
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2. DaHomie - November 8th, 2007 at 09:19
This will probably come up in other countries as well, let us just hope that other federations have people with a bit more… insight to electric racing.
By the way, the Norwegian federation did NOT ban/put a halt to, any kind of Nitro racing. Strange when you think about it… 5 explosive IB-cells right next to a somewhat explosive fuel tank… Nah that’s not dangerous is it?
3. RC GreenLizardTeam - Santiago de Compostela » La federación Noruega detiene todas las carreras EP (eléctricos) - November 8th, 2007 at 10:14
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4. dp racing - November 8th, 2007 at 12:44
That would not happen with rechargeable LiPo Batteries….. No more crappy low-quality Nimh Batteries in my Cars !
5. NiMh - November 8th, 2007 at 15:37
Well, I would not be sure about that :-)
6. Vanya - November 9th, 2007 at 18:36
It is LiPo batteries in the heavy duty body Very very stupid.