Howdy,
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Patrick Washburn wrote:
> This is where I dis-agree. I recall the initial source of SM being the cars
> already in existence that didn't have a fair place to play. I agree with
> what your saying about giving people time to build, and that was exactly my
> point. Create a "Pink Supercharged V8 Subaru Justy" class, leave it up for
> awhile, promise stability for a few years, and you will eventually fill the
> class. I was sold on the need for class proliferation because I was lead to
> believe that the cars where out there now.
Hey, so I like guys with cow fetishes and strange ideas of what a school
bus can do as much as anyone, but I recall the initial source of national
level SM cars being cars from other autox classes that wanted to make more
mods. I distinctly don't recall seeing _any_ cars from the target
demographic. We're just now starting to see cars actually built for SM at
the national level.
Having said that, I think the target demographic was a good one, and it
shows at the regional level where all the new people start.
SM2, I feel, is going through the same thing. Except in SM2's case, all
the folks with two seat cars that play nationally already have pretty good
places to play. That, coupled with the "regionally sponsored, not gonna
be at nats" flavor of SM2 is gonna keep those people away.
New people, by and large, aren't gonna come to national events. Thinking
that they are is, to some extent, silly.
Mark
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