Originally Posted by
inpuressa
BTW, who decided that you cannot have a slipper clutch on TC?
To be exact, Peter Winton when he wrote the first draft of rules for touring cars way back in 1996, rules which were then ratified by the BRCA members (a majority vote by drivers in the UK) for racing in the UK, then copied by IFMAR and all other racing organisations around the world. So if you want someone to blame, then that's all of us who race in the UK.
At the time slipper clutches were only available as an expensive upgrade for the YR4 and HPI RS4 costing half the price of the car kit, and nothing else. Banning slippers meant there was one less option part that could be sold to us on top of the price of the chassis, and they weren't really necessary even back then when we had much harder tyres and less sophisticated chassis designs. They are even more pointless in touring car racing today, but if they were allowed everyone would be buying them anyway.