I find "I'm not going to buy the rules until I know that I fit in them"
humorous for two reasons.
1. The arrogance of someone who puts a lot of "stuff" in/on his car, then
expects the rulebook to fit the project instead of finding out what the
rules are and building to the book. It's a I-class concept (*I* want a class
for the car *I* have that *I* can win with).
2. The way the SCCA Solo II rules are -- and even moreso now with ST and
SM -- there is just about nothing out there that is not legal in SOME class
(with the possible exception of a Suzuki Samurai and other top-heavy SUVs).
It may not be legal in the class you wanted to be in, but it is legal in
SOMEthing, even if that something ends up being DM or EM. Or AM.
--Rocky Entriken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Whitworth" <dave@wcsllc.net>
To: <dave2020@mindspring.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Rule Books
> DO NOT TAKE AS A FLAME!!!
>
> I certainly don't think that SCCA's rule delivery system is perfect....and
> think online availability would be helpful....but....
>
> I also can't see how we can fix people who have the attitude "Yeah well
I'm
> not going to buy the rules until I know that I fit in them". I don't know
> the person who wrote this, so it is not a reflection on them personally,
but
> in general when I read this type of comment, it is due to apathy on the
part
> of the writer. If the rules were available online, they'd probably say "I
> can't download that 3MB file, I've got dial up" or whatever.
>
> I get rubbed the wrong way by people who invest thousands of dollars in
high
> performance mods, which have no resale value, but then won't spend $15 for
a
> rule book in order to know where they fit?
>
> Once again, not a flame...and I'm not saying SCCA is perfect (or even
close
> to it!). Maybe making changes for someone who doesn't care about rules
> anyway, and has a 75% chance of coming to one event, getting beat by a
bone
> stock Neon and never returning is something we shouldn't do.
>
> DaveW
>
> PS - Like someone said last week on one of these lists: Our opinions on
> these lists and $5 will get a large latte at Starbucks!
>
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