"Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com wrote:
>> How many ESP drivers are in SM this year? Looks like around 10 cars are
old ESP
>> cars. That would have brought your ESP total into the ballpark where it
blows
>> your 'numbers' away.
> And why do you suppose they're running there instead of ESP?
Actually, I don't think any of the ESP->SM defectors are there because of
Bob Tunnell. They're there because SM allows them to do something that ESP
doesn't.
I'm actually quite pleasantly suprised by the total lack of "bottom
feeders" in the SM ranks this year. All the SM cars at Nats were "real" SM
cars, not SP cars looking for a softer class.
Well... there was a tuner SS Camaro with us who had signed up for Super
Stock who defected to SM, but I think that was more a case of "getting the
hell out of Dodge" than was an attempt to bottom feed.
> That's it! The M3 in ESP was all a crafty plot by DG and the SM crowd to
> pump up their numbers!
I wish I had a tenth of the influence I'm attributed....
> Bottom line ESP should not be
> able to be dominated like it has been this year by a non-Pony car. With
> _any_ driver.)
Well, the M3 aside, where does it say in the rules that ESP must be won by
a Mustang or Camarobird? If it runs ESP times, then it's an ESP car - the
name on the fender doesn't matter.
DG
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