How about the other scenario. People decide that going to Nationals and
Tours is not a goal and stop running on race tires. Switch to the ST class
and the race tire class is undersubscribed.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-ba-autox@Autox.Team.Net]
On Behalf Of Matt Drance
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 6:58 PM
To: Pat Kelly; ba-autox@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: New Solo 2 Officers for 2005 and change to Street Tire class
Hi Pat,
--- Pat Kelly <lollipop487@comcast.net> wrote:
> However, running them with their base classes and compiling the
> results later ends up not being fair to which ever class runs under
> the worse conditions.
Excellent point, that's what I get for firing off an email without stopping
to think :-)
> Two groups of Street Tire might be a good fit.
> What classes would run in
> each one?
Rex already suggested Stock and Everyone Else (STEE), which is kind of where
I was headed with it. Maybe we could call it STFF (Fast and Furious).
Again, those were just two off-the-cuff ideas. The point is, I think we
could dream up something other than The End Of Street Tire. Like I said in
my first email, the individual ST "dunce" classes might be the opposite end
of the spectrum -- you win because you weren't racing against anybody. That
cheapens the competition IMO. If GS-ST ends up thin, I could try my luck in
GS, but as you get more serious the skill gap decreases a lot (I don't see
anybody winning GS in street tires). So it becomes "if you want a
meaningful trophy, you need to spend another 1K a year". I think that would
be unfortunate. We have
(had) a mechanism in place for people with finite budgets to experience
large competition, and I think it would be a shame to lose that.
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