> does it matter whether you get fourth in Street TIre or sixth some other
> class?
First, you get a trophy for finishing 4th in Street Tire, and you DON'T for
finishing 6th in some other class. That matters to a lot of us.
Second, if you look at the SM car that WAS competitive enough to trophy last
season in Street Tire and see how it's prepared relative to what
it's PAX allows, and then extrapolate his results to an ACTUALLY prepared SM
car, I think it's a little bold to say they can't be competitive..
Nobody has addressed the effect this will have on race tire use in Stock
classes. Does the club care that there's almost no incentive to buy
race tires now? Why not simply scrap the race tire option for Stock classes
all together? That way we won't dilute the existing smallish Stock
classes into absurdly small classes.
"Modest Proposal" time: Street Tire is a "convenience class" because there are
no race tires.. Why not make them all "convenient". From this
standpoint it makes more sense to have a single PAXed class for Stock cars on
RACE TIRES for those people serious about Nationals. They
can compete amongst themselves with a much more tightly controlled set of tire
variables. Those of us who do it to compete locally can do
just that with less expense and hassle, and without the reduced class sizes
that a have/have-not class structure will create. A PAXed race tire
class is bound to have a much more consistent participation since you have to
be pretty serious to want to get into it, and that's going to
ease group size problems.
If you're going to scrap race tires, scrap race tires.
Jake
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