Here in Oregon the SCCA vintage grid is everything that shows up--one grid.
I enjoy it, but I think it's a bit terrifying occasionally. The GT-1 cars
are hard to get around just because they look so big when you're in a low
car like Peyote. I always try to pass them early in the entrance to the
fiddly stuff, or they'll come whistling by just at the end of the straight.
Late in the race it's a decent tactic to let them do that, because they're
always out of brakes and they usually straighten out the corner and get
seriously agricultural.
Of course if one of them ever hits me they'll turn Peyote back into a
collection of beer cans and old road signs.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf
Of William G Rosenbach
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:41 AM
To: fpspitfire@insightbb.com
Cc: triumph_marx@freenet.de; fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: SCCA cages
Aaron,
Will SCCA still allow an early SCCA car, with its log book number stamped on
its rollbar, to run in a SCCA sanctioned vintage race, configured just as it
was when first raced?
Some years back, SCCA ran a race at Colorado's Pueblo Motorsports Park, in
which they grouped all cars with doors and fenders in a single group. That
group included 2, GT-1 cars. One, a humble GT-1, the other, an ex-Jack
Rousch Trans-Am car. The Trans-Am car qualified 20.0 seconds or so quicker
than todays fast vintage cars. It lapped the other GT-1 car and took the
checker before the smaller Production cars had run half the race distance. I
do not recall anyone protesting, which was a surprise. That kind if thing
alone should keep them in their own groups.
Bill
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:12:50 +0000 fpspitfire@insightbb.com writes:
> Chris...
> No they aren't...Full cages became required about '96 because of an
> incedent
> between a GT1 car and an H-Production car I believe. Now things are
> little
> different. Most production drivers of F/G/H boycott run groupings
> which place
> GT1/2 with them.
>
> I didn't see my response post yet...probably a good thing!
>
> aaron
>
> --
> All the best
> Aaron Johnson
> #38 FP Spitfire Mk4 Southern Illinois Region SCCA
> http://www.geocities.com/spitracer9
>
>
> > Are simple roll bars behind the driver not allowed in SCCA?
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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