Originally Posted by Toon

Any idea roughly how much power a sport-tuned motor draws from a battery over a 5 minute race, on a fairly short indoor track?

The club usually runs 3 heats than a final for each class, so I was hoping to get away with not having to charge either of the 3200mAh LiPo's at all during the evening, as there isn't much time between heats (~20 mins), and with having to marshall the next race & then get the car ready, I'd like to keep it all as simple as I can. I thought of using battery '1' for heats 1 & 3, and battery '2' for heat 2 and the final.

Would a 3200mAh LiPo be able to do ~10 minutes (5 mins running, 30-40 minute break, then another 5 mins running) with a sport-tuned motor, without the LiPo cutoff kicking in?