BRCA 1/10th Electric Off Road AGM Proposals

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Originally Posted by Chris Larner

Do the BRCA realise this or are they trying to start the end of this hobby.

Nothing to do with "the BRCA"
Everything to do with Mark Ashforth and Paul Dickens, those are the two people who have proposed all those new rules.

If those rules are voted in, then the people to blame are Mark and Paul, plus the majority of drivers who turn up at the AGM to vote them in.

All "the BRCA" does is make sure BRCA sanctioned meetings run to the rules that the drivers vote in.

Originally Posted by orinoco

The BRCA homologation issue just seems like a way of making our choice of batteries narrower and more expensive.....no?

Short answer - no it isn't.

Using the list means the manufacturers have a fixed date to work around and they can produce cells for that year without there being a constant capacity and C rating war. While buggies now have more power than they would ever need it's not too important, but for stock classes it can end up back in the battery of the month days, when to keep up you had to keep buying the latest batteries that were introduced few weeks.

The EB lists ensure that batteries and motors are commercially available here in the UK, so you can buy exactly the same equipment as the fastest drivers. No homologation means as long as they meet the BRCA specification they are race legal, without the EB list a driver could be using motors and batteries from his sponsor that aren't available to buy.

Originally Posted by paulc

I think all the AGM proposals should be put on the BRCA website and some sort of voting system put into place so all BRCA members can vote yes or no to what is being proposed. Would this work ?

Well, if enough people want online voting then there is a simple way of getting it. Put in a proposal at next years AGM and get it voted in.

The BRCA Committee can't change the voting unilaterally. Any rule, and especially rules which change the constitution, have to be changed at the AGM by a 2/3rds majority.

Each year there is always someone who asks why we can't vote online, yet no one follows it up with putting in a proposal at the next AGM.