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Re: rws

To: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Subject: Re: rws
From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rap.midco.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:25:03 -0600
I cant see any reason why anyone would build a
50cc side car streamliner either, but scta/bni/usfra
allow it.....

drive on individualists and innovation

763mph rear steer beats all them from steers

Joe

Thomas E. Bryant wrote:

> List,
>
> It would seem to me that "Unlimited Innovation" has to fall within the 
> confines of safety rules. Being open minded is great, but we shouldn't 
> be so open minded that our brains fall out. I have been sitting by and 
> wondering what all this fuss about "rws" is about. I can't see why 
> anyone would want to do this when it seems evident that those who have 
> tried it want no part of it.
>
> It is good to see that finally...it is understood that...at both the 
> lakes and at Bonneville, we run at the pleasure of the SCTA/BNI & 
> USFRA Organizations. They are the ones that work their butts off to 
> make it happen and the ones ultimately responsible for the safety of 
> the meets. All this discussion is amusing, but until the rules change, 
> it is just that....discussion.
>
> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC
>
> Dave Dahlgren wrote:
>
>> Don't let that phrase of 'unlimited innovation' fool you too much The 
>> innovation
>> is very closely regulated and controlled in all ways. if it were 
>> unlimited i
>> could build a RWS car with traction control and drive by wire but i 
>> suspect it
>> could not get in for time only so save your breath. What it is in 
>> reality is the
>> amount of innovation that can and will be tolerated by the car clubs 
>> in So Cal
>> area.... Lets all say points championship one more time for the lakes 
>> meets and
>> lets have the chorus really belt it out so we are all in agreement on 
>> this
>> fact..
>>
>> Dave Dahlgren
>>
>> john robinson wrote:
>>
>>> partly this discussion is just an exercise in bench racing, partly its'
>>> because the powers that be have restricted the Streamliner class 
>>> lately,
>>> re: no RWS, no Traction control, partly because a few of us are
>>> inquisitive...and partly because somebody did try to use it, and maybe
>>> somebody else still wants to try...the Streamliner class rules 
>>> begins by
>>> stating it is for unlimited innovation, this is innovation, maybe not
>>> what >you< would want to try, but it still is innovative.....





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