Thanks, Carl. You more clearly said what I was getting at. The gray
areas are getting grayer, and it would be good to see if it was possible
to come up with some sort of easily measurable stability rule. If the
conclusion is that it's too messy/ugly/hard/meaninless, that's fine,
but it's worth considering.
/Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Merritt [mailto:cmerritt@ati.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:53 PM
To: Bill Hamburgen; ba-autox@autox.team.net; 'Smokerbros@aol.com'
Subject: RE: Vehicle eligibility...
Odd, my 300ZX is specifically EXCLUDED from one of the SCCA's classes
because it *IS* "sports car based" (SM), so the implication that the SCCA is
intended specifically for "Sports Cars" doesn't hold water. Heck, second
place for the GRM $1500 challenge was a minivan, quite an eye opening
performance, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it repeated in an SM entry.
I agree, excluding vans, SUVs, pickups and the like won't cause a lot of
people much grief, and should probably be done to clarify things. They gray
areas are getting rather wide, especially with all the new
not-quite-a-car/suv/pickup things soon to be coming out from various
manufacturers, so devising some sort of measurable rule like Bill suggested
would make sense.
-Carl
> ----------
> From: Smokerbros@aol.com[SMTP:Smokerbros@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 7:59 PM
> To: billh@pa.dec.com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Vehicle eligibility...
>
> In a message dated 10/19/2000 10:26:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> billh@pa.dec.com writes:
>
> << I'm not claiming this formula is perfect, but I think it's better than
> excluding vehicles based on appearance. >>
>
> As SPORTS CAR Club of America official, I think we're going to make very
> small number of people unhappy if we exclude vans, SUVs, and most pickup
> trucks (including mine)
>
> For some reason, there's a segment of the population that thinks a
> mathematical
> formula can solve any situation. I'm of the school that believes they
> solve
> very few of our situations in SCCA.
>
> CHD
>
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