Glenn Duensing wrote:
>>Change the rule to OEM type and watch Stock class die.
I for one, want my car to handle the best both on and off the track. If a
OEM rule became law, I would stop running SCCA events and run other events.
There are those with "deep" pockets that will spend whatever it takes to win
a tire contract. So with that in mind, what about eliminate tire contracts?
Everybody pays the same price. Hmmm. I know that's a touchy subject. 8^)
Bottom line folks, it's not the shocks, it's that I must have that to win
way of thinking. It's true, it's true <VBG>.
Glenn Duensing
>>>
Is it true that motorsports is the fastest growing sport? And would
grassroots racing follow the trend? It would seem so, since STS and SM
classes have been born and have flourished without taking away from stock or
other ranks.
I think the rebuttal (a solution, really, not a rebuttal) to Glenn's
point is that there can be stock "stock" classes and some other "new" class
which allows all the new shocks, so one's car can handle the best it possibly
can (or whatever else "new" is out there) and everybody who has the same
kinds of mods run against everybody similarly setup.
The point is, there seems to be enough people to run in many conceivable
categories. In fact, there was SCCA and now there's NASA. What's the point
trying to cram everyone into a few classes (or even organizations) and then
"creating" the dilemma of levelling the playing field because of the wide
diversity? Call one class the proletariat and the other the elite. (that
guarantees a lot of incoming)
Although I realize that this creates the demand for class definition and
organization, it seems far easier and less controversial to accommodate
everyone, than arguing back and forth about which shocks to allow, and how
much do these shocks cost anyway and having the same circular argument move
on to chassis (K-bars), etc etc.
As for older cars for which "stock" components may no longer be
available, then perhaps we can take a lesson from the other kind of "road
racers". Marathon classes are age-classified.
Let's include, not exclude!
Victor
94-96 F/P
Metropolitan Washington Council
of Spots Car Clubs
Wash DC Region, SCCA
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