Originally Posted by
wingracer
It would still be illegal. And like I said, easy to tech as long as it is always on. If it were made a hidden profile, then it would be a problem but you would never keep it secret. Sooner or later someone would blab and the speedo would be made illegal.
This would only work in classes that have a lot of extra battery capacity. If you raise the voltage you will use more current since the watts expended will be the same or greater depending on effiency. So for the faster classes they will need more battery capacity to make it happen.
The other way to catch this type of cheating is to check straight away speeds. When a guy turning slow laps is way faster down the straight, check his equipment. I know this has been done in full sized road racing and has caught a few cheaters. Funny when a 10th place guys is faster than 1st. The true top racers wont be going to something that blatant as they are usually pretty close in speed.
John