Re: Stock or Modified(Street Prepared, Prepared, Mod, etc.)?

[Paul and Meredith Brown <racers@rt66.com>]

One point I haven't seen anyone make is that most modified (small "m") 
vehicles are works-in-progress.  While this is somewhat true of Stock 
vehicles, it is generally less so.  So a learning driver will (hopefully) 
spend more time working on driving and less time working on the car.  Even 
if that driver has plenty of time, presumably the Stock vehicle will be 
more consistent from week to week, and will therefore be a better learning 
platform.  There are also some reasonable arguments about better 
reliability in Stock classes that would be somewhat dangerous 
generalizations....

Some of this would not be true if the learning driver bought a top-level 
non-Stock vehicle.  Dealing with vehicle compromises may make learning more 
difficult, which is to say that driving a Stock vehicle may require a more 
advanced skill level than driving a car that really works well (easy for me 
to say;  I've spent my entire career in Stock!)  How about "a different set 
of skills";  yeah, that's a less controversial way to say it.  But 
sometimes maintaining such a beast in top form can be too much of a 
challenge too....




Paul and Meredith Brown

MR2:  "Not the easiest car in the world to work on"