Originally Posted by
Craps
The World's Fastest RC Car Challenge that RC Car Action Magazine puts on every year has all the electric powered cars including the record holder using soft pack li-pos in them just held in with velcro straps at speeds in excess of 100 to 125 mph with alot them hitting the concrete barrier along the track destroying the car with not one case of a li-po fire at this event in the 2 years they have held it. A true test of soft pack li-pos and should be a good example of how safe they really are.
Just go the the RCZone thread for the event and see all the pictures of these radical RCs with soft packs stacked up inside the cars. Here is alink to the threads:
http://forums.radiocontrolzone.com/f...play.php?f=342
This is Nic Case's car that set the record the first year at 134 mph that was crashed and the batteries reused in another car that went unofficially 164 mph. Note the soft pack batteries in the car stacked up.
Another pic of this years 127 mph car complete with soft pack li-pos:
I thought this most extreme example of crashes of TC cars or pan cars would be the extreme example of crashes over 125mph into a concrete barrier and the batteries reused is strong evidence to the safety of soft packs. Carpet TCs may get to whooping 35 mph with no concrete walls around to crash into.