> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
>
> > Autoxers buy the cars they buy because they expect them to be competitive
> in
> > their class. Stock class drivers turn their cars over relatively quickly
> > anyway, I imagine the mode would be 2-3 years.
>
> That *may* be true of drivers in National competition -- although I still
> see a number of "old" cars in the trophy results. But autocrossing is still
> predominantly a sport for local drivers -- the vast majority don't go
> trekking across states to run events, and many didn't buy their cars with
> class domination squarely in their sights. Room for the baby seat often
> intrudes into the decision.... Given that the SIIR, including the
> classification rules, have to serve that entire population, ejection from
> Stock at the 7-year point is a poor idea.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have an answer that wouldn't upset lots of people....
Actually, Jamie - the way I'd prefer to see such a rule implemented would be
simply as a supplemental for National/Tour events. That way you could retain
the classifications for the older cars at the regional level, and the National
drivers would migrate to the newer cars. The biggest downside I see there is
that eventually you lose good classification examples in the older cars because
none of the fast people are driving them.
KeS
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