[Fot] Small Bore Racers

[Robert M. Lang]

Hi,

I haven't read this whole thread, so forgive me if I'm beating a dead 
horse.

As a point of information, the SCCA Solo is now proposing dumping G 
Prepared (where Spitefires are presently competing) and moving rear-drive 
cars to D Prepared. I find the proposed rules change to be curious in that 
the base intent was to fix a problem that allowed a certain dead-ringer 
car to be the to be had car for E Prepared (presently the Dorsey Toyota 
and formerly a couple of really awesomely prepared Mazda rotary-powered 
sedans (RX-3's, I think)).

But I wanted to make two points that I didn't see covered in the thread so 
far.

1. There's competitive and there's competitive. I happen to run my TR6 
totally outclassed by the performance potential of other cars in the 
class. I don't beyatch about it. I just run there. I pick my own targets 
and base my "success" on my relative performance to MY benchmark.

2. I think Triumphs are kool. Just because I think that way, doesn't mean 
that others think so. But I also find the same level of passion with folks 
that run all sorts of different cars - including some that are fairly 
successful. And although it's rare, I still get some really kool 
compliments on my car and I find that immensely satisfying.

The overall point, though, is that if you have a car - ANY car - and you 
want somewhere to play, SCCA probably has a place where you can play. 
Don't get over-worked up about the politics or the rules. Just go out and 
try to have fun. When it is not fun, do something about it or bail. Easy 
as that.

I'm not going to lie, driving a 40 year old car at 10 / 10 th's is a 
freakin hoot. And to the comments regarding reliability, if you dial back 
your preparation in the name of reliability, you can have fun for a long 
time with your Triumph. And it's fairly inexpensive to do so. But if you 
start cranking up the performance knobs, you're going to break stuff and 
there goes your reliability.

Just sayin.

Regards,
rml
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