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Re: Fair Classing for everybody is ridiculous? (was Fiero classing)

To: "George Ryan" <quad4fiero@webzone.net>, <Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com>,
Subject: Re: Fair Classing for everybody is ridiculous? (was Fiero classing)
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:27:51 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: George Ryan <quad4fiero@webzone.net>
To: Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net>; Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com
<Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com>; jon e prevo <tcbracer@juno.com>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>; NASA <nasa@wco.com>
Date: Sunday, July 16, 2000 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: Fair Classing for everybody is ridiculous? (was Fiero classing)


>I have an '88 coupe for $1500 that you can buy and do any
>damn thing you wish with it, even show your a-- at the
>Nationals in ES if you choose.
>
>BTW, when was there any mention of a bet?
>

Sorry.  The "bet" rhetoric was, well, rhetorical.  The fact is that you made
a statement of fact to support your position on classing.  I don't think
that your statement of fact is in fact, factual.  I don't think that a
novice with three events in a Neon is likely to beat an experienced
autocrosser with three years seat time in a same-class Fiero.  Just don't
believe it.  So I challenged it.

There are probably tons of poorly-classed cars.  But I don't think making
this kind of statement is the way to prove it.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"If I can do it, it's not art"  - Red Green



>G
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net> wrote:
>
>>> I'll take that bet.  You supply the ES 2.5L Fiero in good condition.
>I'll
>>> drive it here for a season.  I'll buy the tires.  Then you send your
>>novice
>>> in his Neon.  I'll kick him.  And I am not that good.  A top driver like
>>> Tunnell  (either one of them) will clean his clock without any
experience
>>in
>>> the Fiero.
>
>



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