for vic i could venture a guess? none, none, and razor blades?
-james
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM>
> Since you're so damned fast and I can't afford Penskes, would you care to
> share with us the best brands of hats, underwear, and breakfast cereal? I
> really like Honey Comb but I also want to trophy at Nationals someday.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Noll [mailto:rnoll98@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:15 PM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Stock Shock Chalk Talk
>
>
> I think we're still missing a large chunk of the debate here. Some
> responses are saying how people are not spending ridiculous amounts on
> tires, prep, etc. right now so why should they on shocks just to be
> competitive. The fact of the matter is if you aren't spending bucks on
> tires you won't be competitive even with shocks, at the national level.
> And, unfortunately all the national guys and gals have to run locally
> somewhere. So, for the unfortunate people that have to deal with the
> Andy McKees, Vic Sias's, and others like them at the regional level,
> you better have the best rubber, shocks, gloves, hat, underware,
> breakfast cereal, and the like in order to be competitive, because they
> do. The tire argument rings very true... it's much more expensive to
> keep up with rubber than with shocks.
>
> We can't look at the argument through "national driver's" and "regional
> driver's" eyes and say that one or the other is a minority or that a
> rule only favors one or the other. All national drivers are regional
> drivers, and all regional drivers have to drive with/against national
> drivers. Quite frankly, each one needs the other for our hobby to
> survive.
>
> I don't think people would mind spending money on penskes if they could
> be ensured that their car would be competitive for 5 or more years with
> that setup. What would worry me is that I might make an investment in a
> car (whether it's mine already or I buy it specifically to autox) that
> could be deemed uncompetitive next year, regardless of equipment.
> Again, maybe we should be looking more at stock class stability?
>
> Like Katie said for herself, I'm sure 90% of us will still autox
> regardless of what the rules are.
>
> randy
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