Originally Posted by
Qatmix
Whatever type batteries you use you can buy more expensive ones. Even oval racing now some guys spend £50+ on a set on Nimhs to get an advantage. Personally its good news that the M05 will be able to take the more affordable square packs as most guys here have them and it was always a blocker to run an M-class.
Isnt one of the charms of Mini racing that they cant exactly handle a lot of power etc, so chucking in a top of the range lipo is not going to make the difference that it would in TC.
Sure, that's true, but we no longer run Nimh batteries here. There are only a few round lipo hard cased batteries on the market. The Peak Powermax 4200 is pretty much standard fare locally and is $30 USA. Now that's affordable and for the most part, this battery is as good as any on the market here. We did not have a battery war, but it looks like we'll have one for a bit till it all gets sorted.
My understanding is that some clubs specify Nimh batteries for Minis in England. Idiotic when you consider that there are much less expensive lipo batteries that out perform your old nimhs and last 5X as long.
Sorry, but when you have Spec racing, batteries have a bigger impact than when you don't.