> OK, I feel the ZO6 Vett is legal for SS this year, and this is
>why.
You're perfectly entitled to feel this way. But you're wrong. ;)
> The C5 vett has been classed in SS for three years now, with
>changes to the car every year, it is listed as "Corvette, 97-+"
> So here is my point, the ZO6 is not a new car, though it has many
>changes over the previous coups, it is the only way you can get a coupe
>now, the coupe is all ready classed!
Hardtop, not coupe. I agree it isn't a new model.
>this car is designated as being of a model year later than the current year
>as stated before (and in 3.1 of the rule book) but it HAS been specifically
>classed ( Corvette 97-+) it doesn't say
>except coupe if they make it too fast!
Hardtop, not coupe. Your point is that the SS listing for the C5 (97+)
qualifies as "specifically classing" the 2001 model for competition in 2000.
I disagree, but I recognize your interpretation.
To accept your interpretation would be to say that any car model listed as
"year XX +" would be exempted from the 3.1 model year restriction. I don't
think that has historically been done. For one thing, the rulebook listings
don't usually change from, say, "Corvette '84+" to "Corvette 84-96" UNTIL
the year following a new generation introduction. So interpreting the rule
your way would have allowed any new generation cars ('99 Miata, '93 Camaro,
'97 Corvette, '9? Neon, a host of others) to compete at their time of
introduction. That certainly hasn't been allowed, at least not under that
auspice.
>so, to keep this car out of the running, it would have to be
>separated from the rest of the Corvettes by reclassing it as it
>is all ready classed, its not like the Boxster "S" or the Camaro
>SS, as these cars are an option package on a model of a car, the Corvette
>coup is only available with this new package so it is a change to an
>already classed car, a huge change, but a
>change, not a new model, so the car may need to be reclassed.
I don't think this argument is either necessary or very strong. The Z06 is
definitely an option package on a model of the car (C5 Corvette). However,
since the C5 Corvette is classed without regard to body type (for the last
time, HARDTOP!), it doesn't matter.
>now the tricky part.
> As a lot of people know, Dan and I have been trying to get the
>Ferrari 360 classed, what we ran into was "cars will not be classed after
>July" from the SEB , which I can see, that's fair as not to end up with the
>problems of the past few years. BUT this is the other side of the coin, now
>here is a car that really CAN
>dominate SS, but its after July so it cant be reclassed.
Why can't it run under the SS catch-all? Is yours a 2001 model, or didn't
they make enough?
> DISCLAIMER this is not a rank on the SEB, I have no problems with these
>guys, they are friends and fellow competitors and I
>appreciate the time and effort they put in to make this whole thing work,
>this is just a comment on how I read it, and I have been wrong before once
>or twice =)
> Curt Ormiston
KeS
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