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Re: 200 Club Minimums

To: <SaltyCuda@aol.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:11:17 -0500
Well I'm not trying to change any of them. Just trying to find out what some
of the new ones are. But I sure don't like the idea. Guess my big beef is
that they were never brought up to the general membership before being
inacted.

John Beckett

----- Original Message -----
From: <SaltyCuda@aol.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums


> All I want to say about minimums is once they have been set, don't revise
> them.  We put our A motor on the engine stand, build a B motor because the
> minimum was lower in B than the record in A.  However, the 2-club board
> revised the minimums, increasing the B minimum to about 5 mph higher than
the
> A record.  We weren't aware of the change until we were on the salt, in
line
> for our qualification attempt.  We went on to set a record in the class,
but
> did not exceed the new minimum.  We would have been better off just
> freshening up our A motor.
>
> So if you set them don't change them.
>
> Jim (frustrated with the system) Snyder.
>
> PS I got into the club in 1990, AA/Alt class.  Long before minimums, in
fact
> we had to do it three times to get a record back then.  Qualify by
exceeding
> the record, then the next day at 7:00 a.m. all the previous day's
qualifiers,
> made a run down the course and back within an hour or so, to get the two
way
> average.  The attempt with the B motor was in '96 with my partner at the
> wheel, Phil Grisotti.
>
> J

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