Wes,
I just gave a presentation on Land Speed Racing to the Rotary Club
today. While preparing for this, I was thinking about how it used to be.
When I first started running Bonneville, our poster boasted 72
competition classes. What do we have now, four or five hundred? I
counted over 250 motorcycle classes. You raise a good point, how many
will be benefited by the added classes, maybe we don't need more
classes!!
Tom
Wester S Potter wrote:
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> This reminds me of the questions and complaints Don West had fifteen years
> or so ago when he came to the salt with a Monza body. He had the full
> streamlined nose for the car that was built by Chevrolet and approved by
> SCCA. He finally chose not to run it when his testing showed that the
> (original) stock front end was faster at high speed than the air dams and
> bulges on the other nose, aerodynamic though it may appear. Many existing
> classes on the salt are the outgrowth of splitting displacement limits,
> accommodating new body shapes and the proliferation of a certain type of
> equipment that can warrant another class to permit its use. A valid
> question is how many racers can benefit from the new class? Does it mean
> that another 200 Club area is opened for specific people? Does the three
> car requirement have a full representation?
> Wes
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