>>I'm afraid of marginalizing the core audience of STU
- 50% Honda Civics & Preludes
- 30% DSMs
- 10% Acura Integras
- 10% a mixture of M3s, Neons, VWs, Suburus, Cavaliers, Sunfires, Grand
Prixs,
and maybe the odd Porsche. (There, spelled it right Mark. ;<<
Your core audience is what dg50 wants it to be period. You are already
adding makes otherwise excluded from ST, why not remove all vehicle
restrictions? Why not try and get as many people to run your class. Let
any car that want's to compete in ST given the rules on displacement. In
essence if every car in stock class the met your engine requirements, and
preped their car to the full STU rules as you have laid out, your taget
audience would be the same as you have laid it out now. Mostly import drags
with a few american cars thrown in. You cannot look at solo2 stock
performance to base your classes. Look at the maximum potential of all cars
and base your eligbility off of that. What is the difference in letting an
RX3 with the RX7TT and Suspension run or an late model Rx7TT, in theory both
cars would be equal. Why not the the Rx7TT run? Just an example but
hopefully you will get my point.
Rick
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-----Original Message-----
From: dg50@daimlerchrysler.com <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com>
To: Rick Cone <conekiller@cwix.com>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>; werace4u@aol.com
<werace4u@aol.com>
Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: STU Rules Update Update
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>> I totally disagree here. It is not about run whacha brung. If it was
you
>> would allow all cars, within your engine formula to compete. Not just
cars
>> with more then 2 seats.
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>Ahhh, I see what this is about now.
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>Rick, STU exists today. And one of the rules in the existing STU is that
you
>gotta have 4 seats.
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>That rule is there for a very good reason - weight. The 2 seaters are very
much
>smaller and lighter than the 4 seaters, and they are also very rare in the
>demographic that we are targeting here.
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>If we allow 2 seaters, we completly cut the core group out of the loop.
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>Now, if an enterprising soul wanted to take the new STU rules - once they
are
>approved - and change the eligibility requirements to allow only 2-seaters,
and
>call the class "Street Sports Unlimited" that would be a Good Thing. I
would
>support that. I think your audience is much smaller than the 4-seaters, and
it's
>harder to find them all in one place (STU can just go to the dragstip, or
put
>adds in SCC, Turbo, and Super Street) - but more power to you.
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>> What are afraid of? Competition or getting beat?
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>I'm afraid of marginalizing the core audience of STU
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>- 50% Honda Civics & Preludes
>- 30% DSMs
>- 10% Acura Integras
>- 10% a mixture of M3s, Neons, VWs, Suburus, Cavaliers, Sunfires, Grand
Prixs,
>and maybe the odd Porsche. (There, spelled it right Mark. ;)
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>DG
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