Just having reverse enabled is a no-no at my track. That said, I've not known anyone to check, but I've not done any points races yet.

That's a stupid rule. That would be like going to a track that only allows one kind of tire sauce and getting in trouble for also having another sauce in your pit bag. if my track started to make rules against stupid things that have no impact on the outcome of the race I would have to find somewhere else to go.

From my experience, in off road racing, having reverse during practice comes in handy quite a bit cuz car gets flipped or gets stuck a lot. And off road cars are quite durable. So even if somebody bumps into another car during reverse, that may not be disastrous. But in onroad racing, it is different. Cars r more sensitive and weaker and faster. If somebody reverses and bumps into another car, that could cause some major damage. The effect gets even larger cuz onroad cars r stuck to the ground and dont have any kick ups. So unlike offroad cars during crash, one car doesnt ride on the other. So i would not want to see reverse on onroad track either practice or not.

I dunno. As I said, as far as I know, no one checks, and if you don't use it during the race, I doubt anyone cares. I'll admit, I leave reverse enabled on my car because it's handy for practice and I'm too lazy to turn it off for racing.

It's a national rule where I race. The individual clubs are less strict at actually enforcing it.

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Having an associates in electronics I can give an educated guess. No. However on my tekin products if I decrease brake strength reverse speed is proportionally affected. The design programming and makeup of each manufacture varies, so to find the absolute truth the original engineers would have the best answer to your question.

most places to race having reverse is a show to exit door.. get your tail moving and go flip or move your car stay outa wrecks.see this happen all the time person is 60 feet away and due to their tunnel vision never see car pile till there in it..you have peripheral vision use it.kill reverse..should never use or need it unless your only bashing.

Where do race where this is the case? I want to know so I can avoid this place.

I suspect you have a very wrong view of rc racing in general. I have been racing rc cars for 28 years and have never seen a track kick someone out for using reverse.

Also, is English not your first language? When I read your posts it sounds like you are using google translate.

My only comment on leaving reverse on in racing is that for Blinky racing now your not "Blinky". For guys running xr10 justocks really doesn't matter but if you have a speedo capable of pulling timing how does anyone know your not. Most guys at the track I can probably trust. Some I wouldn't!

Why does reverse have anything to do with blinky mode? Reverse and timing are not the same thing. I run my Tekin esc's in blinky and I have reverse enabled.

Same here as been to a lot of different tracks and never once been yelled at for using reverse during practice, either on road or off

Practice isn't racing. It's not like they'd disqualify your practice run if your car is underweight. However, there should be no reversing during the race. I don't understand why there's so much objection to that rule. Why must reverse be enabled if you know you can't use it?

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The ROAR rule book specifies that you can not use reverse, not that reverse has to be disabled. We are not breaking any rules, we don't have to disable it if we don't want to.

Hmm. I was under the impression that when you enable reverse your not esc wouldn’t do the roar approved blink. My hobbywong won’t do the timed blink when I have reverse enabled.

Hobbywing makes it to where you have to put the esc into a reverse mode. That mode may come with timing you can disable. The esc might blink after you set the timing to zero in the reverse mode. Maybe it won't, I don't know.

Most esc's have reverse that you can turn on independent of any other setting. This is one of the reasons I run the esc's I run.