I drive Mini's, Midgets, etc., and for the past few years I've not attended
events that group cars by age, or what ever, rather than size and engine
capacity. That way you get cars that tend to accelerate and corner at
similar speeds together.
At 10:46 AM 24/06/97 -0400, you wrote:
>ESPN via AP (go figure, any tragedy) had the news about this incident at
>Road America. It was a woman from Michigan who had been racing a Mini
>for about 11 years in SCCA. T-boned in qualifying by a Camaro. The
>ridiculous part was the quote from an SCCA steward who said size had
>nothing to do with it. In my opinion, this is a problem with SCCA's
>"Alphabet Soup" practice of putting groups of disparate cars (size, hp,
>comp level, etc.) on the track together. Apparently it happens at other
>tracks than the east coast ones, too.
>Anyhow, it is a terrible tragedy under any circumstances.
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