> In a message dated 4/25/99 10:28:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> msmith2@columbus.rr.com writes:
>
>> Why should you have to choose immediately upon leaving Stock?
>> Why not make it finacially feasible to compete in SP, THEN Prepared
> without
>> having to build a second car to do it?
>>
>> So far, what we have is: Everything legal in Stock is legal in SP.
>> Also, anything legal in Prepared is legal in Modified.
>>
>> Seems that the already established pattern has been disrupted somewhere
> in
>> between SP and Prepared.
>>
>> Consistancy, it's not just a good idea, it's DAMN convienient...........
And Charlie Davis replied:
> Except that the SP competitors don't want to have to get rid of their wide
> wheels and go back to the Prepared sizes. I suppose we could allow any
> widths in Prepared...
>
> CHD
Either way, a LOT of people are going to have to buy wheels, and I'd wager
most of them would rather spend the money on something else.
I have an idea.......let's ALL get rid of our current Solo cars. Then we can
re-write the entire Solo I/II rulebook from scratch without affecting any
current competitor's pocketbook. Everyone can go buy or build their choice
of car after they read the new rulebook, because I can guarantee the new
book will look nothing like it does today. Then, among other things, we
can have a nice, orderly progression from one category to another.
The problem here is (as someone mentioned previously) the Prepared and
Street Prepared rulesets were created at completely different points in time,
for completely different reasons, and for completely different groups of cars.
Prepared came first, and when SP was created later, its purpose was not to
be "almost-Prepared".
Sometimes, to understand the rules you have to know the history of how and
why the rules were written as they were.
GH Sharp
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