Fair enough, Charlie. You're right about the administrative issues.
The buck stops with you.
To be a bit more philosophical: Quantitative data without experience
can be dangerous or worse. But experience without quantitative data
is a good start, and you certainly have the experience to continue to
do a good job of filtering out the likely disasters. Thanks for your
continued service to the sport.
Over and out... again. But for real this time - gotta catch a plane!
/Bill
> Bill Hamburgen wrote:
> << BTW, Charlie, I agree with you about running out of suspension travel
> being an important determiner of when a vehicle flips. But it's hard
> information to use when teching some unfamiliar vehicle and trying to
> assess if it's likely to flip. Automotive categories are getting fuzzy
> and a quantitative index might help. To pick a couple concrete examples:
> you'd almost certainly let an ordinary Subaru or Volvo sedan or wagon
> run. But how about a Subaru Outback or Forester? Or a Volvo
> Cross-Country? They have the same basic chassis as the vanilla version,
> but an extra inch or two of ground clearance. Where do you draw the
> line? >>
> and Charlie replied:
> Uh, I think I already drew my line at: "Vans, SUVs and Non-lowered trucks."
> I should probably amend that to "non-lowered SUVs." The Typhoon comes to
> mind as a lowered SUV that you'd probably allow to run.
>
> The problem is that you come up with a formula, and someone (me) has to
> administer it. There will be exceptions. It'll exclude all VW's, or Mini
> Coopers, or something, and we'll make an exception. As soon as you make
> the first exception to the formula, you might as well throw it out. Quite
> frankly, I don't want to go measure a vehicle to see if it can run. We
> don't have to be all things to all people. And whether you like it or not,
> there is a lot of subjectivity in our sport. I get enough questions thrown
> at me in the course of an autocross day. When someone else is SFR's
> "answer man" they can use whatever formula they want...
>
> CHD
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