On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:18:40AM -0400, Rick Cone wrote:
> First and foremost IF we went to a 7/10 year rule in stock, the SCAC/SEB
> would have a much easier time of classing cars. Probably 70% of the cars
> listed in the rule book would be gone from NATIONAL competition. The last
> 30% will be broken out into Ultra Competitive classes. Since all newer cars
> share similar technologies, the SCAC/SEB can better brake up that remaining
> cars into 9 classes, perhaps even drop a few.
>
> This is how it might look.
> SS - The Ultra Stock that people here seem to want.
> (Z06/Viper/Ferrari/Whatever)
> AS - Sports Car High Performance (C4 Corvette/RX7TT)
> BS - Sports Car Medium Performance (S2000/M3/Boxster/ And ALL F Bodies)
> CS - Sports Car Low Performance (Miata/MR2/IS300/3 Series BMW)
> DS - Sport Touring (FWD High Perfomance) (TypeR/Subaru's/New Integra Type
> S/Mini S)
> ES - Sport Touring (FWD Medium Performance) (Celicas/Foci/Civics/Mini (non
> S))
>
> It's simple. It's easy to explain to a novice. And pretty balanced. Less
> classes.
Thats's just a lot of baloney. So what are you proposing to do with
all the cars you leave out of the stock classes? Lumping them all in
one (or two) ST classes won't work. You'd have tons of different level
cars and many different degrees of preparation to take care there. So
you'd have to create a new slate of ST classes, this time taking into
account preparation levels. So more classes, more complication.
All of you people thinking about this time limit business, I'd ask you
to think about it from outsied your solo-insider perspective. Solo is
a grassroots motorsport. If it goes away from that it'll be crippled.
As other people have already mentioned, I'm actually offended to these
proposals. I know that the people making them mean no disrespect, but
I feel like me and many other plain autocrossers matter very little.
--
Ignasi.
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