I can't speak for some of the high dollar classes (ie. AS, SS), but you
can buy a car, compete, and win in HS for $5000. True, you can get into
an FM for that, but they're kind of tough to commute in :^) For budget
racing it's hard to beat HS or even CS. Protests are just one of those
things that are going to happen at the National level, that's the main
way we police our sport. I haven't heard anyone recommend a more
effective way to keep things in check. BTW, how much money was sunk into
the AM "sucker" car that was outlawed the year after it was built?
Scott Sawyer
'91 Civic Si HS 22
Team Underdog Racing, Underdog F&C
http://www.teamunderdog.com
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:26:13 -0500 "Andy Whittle" <awhittle@fastrans.net>
writes:
> After reading many of the posts about the restructuring of stock, I
> fail to
> understand why people run in stock classes. They do nothing but
> bitch that
> they no longer have a place to win, now that someone has purchased
> the new
> $40,000 car and sunk another $5000 into shocks, and just won
> nationals
> making obsolete there 2 year old $38,000 car that is now worth
> $18,000. . .
> I just don't understand why the C and A-mod classes are not flooded
> with new
> drivers. Can you guys clue me in to the attraction of stock
> classes. To
> the best of my knowledge, A-Mod has not ever had a protest at
> nationals,
> even if some of the cars are pushing some of the rules, none of the
> competitors seem to care. We just want to race. If it's way faster
> then we
> want to see it go. If it's that much better, we will build one.
> Obsolescence is a natural thing. Just way cheaper in Mod.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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