[Fot] cams and roaches and such

[Bill Babcock]

Agreed. The fastest path to the end of vintage racing is to fail to understand that our vintage is not everyone’s vintage. The magic age for amateur race car drivers is 40—old enough to have money to do it, young enough to want to. People who are 40 today were born in 1975 and probably didn’t care anything about cars until 1985. Teenagers who lusted after a TR3 are 70 and older—less than nine percent of the population and getting smaller fast. 

I don’t care nearly as much about what cars I run on the track with as I do about having races to run. The grids in American vintage racing have changed forever already—not because more modern cars are permitted, but because a lot of the cars that came to even local races are too valuable to risk, or too expensive to maintain, or just tired of racing against “vintage” production cars that turn non-vintage lap times. 


> On Nov 1, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Terry Stetler <tlizzard at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> As someone with CRX on track experience, and also a guy that loves his street TR3 and keeps one very fast race TR3 going, I don't think that dissing the modern sports cars is really good for us overall.
>  
> As has been mentioned previously, interest in "our" cars is fading, as is interest in automobile enthusiasm in general.  Now is not the time for "interservice rivalry", as it were.  We need to embrace all of the many forms
> that are the sportscar, and indeed motorcar enthusiasm in general.  We need to keep our love alive, and to bring up another couple generations of enthusiasts who will come to cherish "our" cars, and keep them alive well into the future.
>  
> Oh, the spec Miata lap record at Mid Ohio is now down to a hair over 1:40.  Just sayin', and that was not done by bumping each other, but by proper application of good driving skills.
>  
>  
> Terry Stetler
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