In a message dated 10/30/03 6:01:38 AM, owner-fot-digest@autox.team.net
writes:
<< Going to Las Vegas would have given me a chance to pay closer attention to
VARA prep rules, interior requirements, safety needs and such. >>
Had occasion to interview their honchos recently. VARA's attitudes are pretty
reasonable. They believe that if a car arrives at the track that is of the
correct years, entry fee paid, driver's medical up to date, and it meets all
safety requirements, a way should be found to allow it to run. They also
believe
that gridding and grouping should be done on the basis of performance, not
artificial or period criteria. If your Spitfire is challenging the lap times of
big-block Mustangs in qualifying, then that's where you'll be placed in the
races, which insures that groups are pretty evenly-matched and pretty
competitive, even though the grids look a bit unusual at times (sometimes even
places
open-wheel cars or sports racers in production groups). Nevertheless, they are
pretty emphatic about on-track safety, so they have a good record of cars and
drivers returning to the paddock in the same condition they went out on the
grid.
Cheers
Gary
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