I'm not talking about "MOST" cars, I'm talking about the competitive trophy
winners. Obviously there are plently of people who are slightly less
competitive who go to a NT event or two and go to Nationals. But I'd bet
that at least half of stock class *trophy* cars are trailered. Or if the
cars aren't trailored, then are they the daily driver for the owner? That's
often not the case. If you have any actual data that proves otherwise,
please, make a believer out of me so that I don't need to go and buy a tow
vehicle and trailer. I'm sure you're aware of the simple fact that racing
toe alignment of a car often makes it annoyingly twitchy at highway speeds,
or the simple fact that if you are driving quite a distance to Nationals
with weird alignment settings, your street tires aren't going to last very
long. So once (for an example) a friend of mine set his alignment up for
racing, driving it on the road did indeed become annoying, and it would have
been cost prohibitive to continue doing it because most people don't have
the money to throw away on tires that just get chewed up driving to and from
events if that's what he did. Of course you could repeatedly get the car
realigned, but that costs money too. Maybe some cars don't have to have as
wacky an alignment as I've seen on some, but I know that a lot of cars
benefit from some good toe-out and it then greatly behooves the owner to
trailer the car. Face it, its simply not cheap to race any kind of car,
stock or otherwise.
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Mike Lamfalusi
'97 VW Jetta GLX
GS - Chicago Region
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:20:46 -0400, Paul Zahornasky wrote:
> Where do people get this crazy idea that most stock cars at Nationals are
> trailer queens? Yes, some people trailer their Stock Class cars to
> Nationals. More probably have a small utility trailer that hooks to the
> back of the car. MOST simply throw their tires and gear into the back of
> the car and go. Hell, Matt Murray does it with his Porsche.
>
> I would bet that most of the people that trailer (Stock Class cars) do it
> because they want the additional room that a tow vehicle and trailer
bring.
> They may be bringing extra tires and rims to an event as rains, they may
> have additional family members coming along, they may have bikes or
scooters
> that they want to bring.
>
> Paul Zahornasky
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Mike Lamfalusi
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 2:39 PM
> To: rjohnson@friendlynet.com; autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Stock class rules was (Re: Sequential Stock Cl
>
>
>
> Not to mention that most cars are trailered because they are next to
> undrivable on
> the street. You better ban trailering stock cars to events if you're
REALLY
> devoted to keeping it pure and innocent as you seem to be. Better ban
those
> expensive lightweight wheels too (creating more disparity in classes
since
> some cars come with light wheels from the factory). Face it, anyone who
> thinks it is cheap to run a competitive stock class car is fooling
> themselves. We all do this because we like it, not because it's cheap.
If
> you want to truely race cheap, start slot car racing or something. I'm
not
> trying to be a jerk or anything, but I just can't see how this argument
> holds up.
>
>
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