In a message dated 10/9/2001 8:53:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dwarner@electrorent.com writes:
> Have you tried to enter your vehicle at the Indy 500, any Winston Cup or SCCA
> event? They do not add "classes" for non-conforming vehicles, why must we?
>
> Now you hold the ladder while I attempt to climb from the soap box.
>
>
Dan,
Well stated. Most of us start the building procedure with a rulebook
in hand and go from there, building a car and engine for the class we're
interested in.
Sometime back someone mentioned "tongue-in-cheek" that pretty soon we
will have classes broken down into car colors if we kept up the expansion.
NASCAR & NHRA even have templates to regulate the shape of the
door-slammer bodies, leaving only the graphics and colors up to the
individual entrant.
To me, building the car first and then looking for a class to run in
is putting the cart before the horse. I think it's unreasonable to expect the
sanctioning body to create a new class for an entrant that didn't start by
building within the existing specified classes.
Ardun Doug King
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