I have to agree with Mark in that we need to promote some sort of rule
stability. Lets
at least try the new format before making changes. I'm an AS driver (C4 vette)
and I'm
just now getting my 1st realistic chance to try the new class stucture at the
national level
these next 2 weeks at Atwater, and thats still a good 10 hour drive from here.
Its not even May
yet and already we are ready to change? I think we need to look at this entire
year before
considering changes, and then any changes made should go into effect the year
after that
(2004). The exception would be option #2, moving the S2000 and Boxster from BS
to AS,
if this was already being considered with the last rule change. I am personally
against
that, but I don't think we have enough data yet. We should by the end of the
year.
Concerning opening up SS to more "Super" Cars like the Viper ACR and 4WD
Porsches,
I don't think the class should have been closed to them in the 1st place.
I also have to agree with Mark's assesment of option#1.
Scott Troyer
Snake River SCCA
"Mark J. Andy" wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Andy Hollis wrote:
> > http://www.scca.org/news/fastrack/02-06.pdf
>
> Concept #1 seems a bit silly to me. We've happily encouraged C4 vette
> owners to come back and play in stock and now we're gonna hit 'em with
> RX-7TT's and Boxster S's? All you're doing there is exchanging dominent
> cars, probably pissing off a lot of people in the process.
>
> Concept #2 makes a bit more sense I guess. I don't have any statistical
> evidence or anything other than my personal feeling, but it seems like the
> S2000 and Boxster can run with the C4 and vice versa (with course
> dependencies). That move would open up BS to the old AS cars.
>
> Overall however, I'd like to suggest that you just leave it the heck
> alone. IMHO rules stability is _much_ more important than trying to make
> sure that three different makes of cars can win. Concept #1 totally
> screws some people over. At least concept #2 seems to give those folks
> who're making the commitment to run at the top of their class a similar
> chance after the proposed change, though I'm sure it'll cause heartache.
>
> If the concern is that there's a pretty big jump in performance from AS to
> SS (with the resulting classing hassles that'll be involved with new cars
> like the RX-8 or other "middle" sportscars), then here's another concept
> (and one that I don't think would have much support and personally would
> hate to see). Exclude the z06 from stock.
>
> Now _that_ oughta piss off some people... :-)
>
> Mark
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