One of these days, Randy, SCCA will revoke your membership. You have way
too much common sense for your own good.
;)
Creating spec classes is probably not a bad idea, if we can keep the local
variants from mutating (which happened in road racing with Spec RX-7).
Scot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Noll" <rnoll98@yahoo.com>
To: "autox mailing list" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: DOT Race Tires may become illegal
> Sway bars, shocks, ride heights, now tires. There's just constantly
> been a voice in the back of my head:
>
> Spec Classes
>
> Look what spec miata has done for road racing. It seems to have opened
> up the door for a ton of budget minded people to be able to race a
> fully prepared, safe, and competitive car. We could easily make a
> spec-z06 class and a spec-MR2 class and probably only lose 5-10% of the
> members from each class (e.g. their cars would have to be classed
> elsewhere).
>
> The Z06 class might not make much sense (the cars are relatively
> expensive to start with), but a spec-MR2 class, spec-Miata class,
> and/or spec-[insert popular inexpensive FWD car here] class would be an
> instant success. Low budget, fun cars, and the best driver wins. Of
> course there goes 90% of our excuses too. "Well he spent $6k on shocks
> and that's the ONLY reason he was 2 seconds ahead of me..."
>
> This club has an incredible amount of "I already spent a load of money
> on my car and I ain't gonna change it", which is totally
> understandable. But at the same time we're creating huge barriers to
> entry for new drivers to run nationally competitive cars.
>
> Why not bring spec-miata straight over from road racing, roll bars and
> all? It'll bring back all the 1st gen miatas that more or less fell off
> when the MR2 started to be the car of choice. It solves some people's
> problem of "I want a competitive autox car and road race car." It will
> help bridge the gap between autocrossers and road racers (I know, we
> think they're evil :P).
>
> But Randy, we don't need another class! Then why the heck are we
> creating SM2? We've got enough classes where you need to spend over
> $40k to be competitive. Bring spec-miata over. I'd bet the first year
> we'd have at least 30 cars at nationals.
>
> Randy N
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