Who knows? That's what it looks like when you look at the Detroit Region's
results. :) More Street Tire than R tire entries, generally speaking, and
Detroit is a heck of a lot closer to Topeka than we are.
Hwever, once you get that stick it's hard to give up. :)
--Pat K
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>From: "Bryan Nemy" <bnemy@pacbell.net>
>To: <mattydrance@yahoo.com>, "'Pat Kelly'" <lollipop487@comcast.net>,
<ba-autox@Autox.Team.Net>
>Subject: RE: New Solo 2 Officers for 2005 and change to Street Tire class
>Date: Fri, Dec 17, 2004, 7:11 PM
>
> 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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