John,
General membership of the club or the BNI? Remember that the club is not a
function of the SCTA-BNI.
It might be a good idea to express the feelings that the minimums should
remain in place and not be modified each year depending on the records set
the previous season.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
To: <SaltyCuda@aol.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums
> 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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