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Originally Posted by sosidge
6.1 "The chassis may not include any features designed to allow the front and rear axle to rotate along the central axis of the car relative to each other. "
Well, they all have mounts on them to allow for axial rotation in the rear suspension, so somewhat curious wording. Any rule that requires a note after it to explain the intention hasn't been worded very well... As far as the intention being to remove chassis flex, well, ALL components flex, just some flex more noticeably than others.
It will be interesting to see to what extent the class becomes dominated by scratchbuilt cars, or cars built from a hybrid of Mardave, Schumacher and older 12th circuit parts. I'm sure the BRCA will have some justification for allowing scratchbuilding, but my gut feeling is that the CWIC series has got it right by restricting their GT12 class to Supastox cars ONLY and Schumacher options ONLY.
And don't get me started on the THREE "equivalent" powertrains... |
The note after the rule is there to be informative and it adds clarity.
Some pan cars have a narrow part on the chassis that acts as suspension.
The rules are saying that this type of suspension is not allowed.
Suspension parts that work as they do on Mardaves and Superstox are one of the points that define the class.
Scratch built cars and cars that have diffs and other mods will dominate GT12.1
Standard cars in GT12.2
The various motor/battery options are well reasoned as are all other parts in the rules.
If something in there does not seem to make sense, be assured that a multitude of people with experience and expertise have chewed it over and come up with the best.