There was only one joke in my last email, and that line wasn't it.
We all make choices, some of us make choices to buy R Compound tires and run
in a Stock class, others choose not to. But forcing your opinion that
everyone should not run R Compounds because some people don't want to buy
them is absurd, it's like forcing ones opinion on other more inflammatory
topics.
There is nothing that says you have to run r compounds, so you get to choose
what you run. There is nothing that says you have to drive fast, so you
either choose to drive fast or you don't.
Choices, it's what no one in this country wants to do anymore, make a choice
and take responsibility for their "choices".
Chris
SCCAForums.com
-----Original Message-----
From: pethier@isd.net [mailto:pethier@isd.net]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:33 PM
To: Chris Hammond (sccaforums.com); autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: GH's Question on Street Tires for Stock
> There is nothing that says R-Compounds are required, so
> that argument about keeping autocross low costs isn't
> valid.
This statement is just as absurd as the recent statement
that "if you don't like the higher speed, don't drive that
fast".
The difference is that the poster of that statement followed
it with a smiley so we knew he was laughing along with us.
So, I will choose to laugh at this statement about
R-Compounds as the joke it must be, because if I assume it
was made seriously, it adds nothing to the discussion.
Rules are an (by nature imperfect) attempt to create a level
playing field for a contest. Attempts to "keep autocross
costs low" (a very difficult thing to do, of course) need to
address class rules to keep costs low for someone actually
trying to win the class. Otherwise, no attempt to keep
costs low would ever be required. Rules have little affect
on people who knowingly enter events with cars which do not
approach the limits of the rules.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1994 Miata
C package
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