In a message dated 7/14/00 8:17:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, pfoster@gdi.net
writes:
<< You don't appear to be classing cars based on relative autocross
potential anymore, but more on some sort of demographic approach
coupled with value judgement. So if BMW made a sports car that cost
$40K but otherwise fit the performance criteria for this class you
would put it in AS or BS instead where it would not be competitive?
Sorry, but I just don't get it. I simply don't think there are enough
classes for this sort of gerrymandering. Class cars based on relative
performance and not on which wheels are driven or how much they cost. >>
I think that's EXACTLY what they are doing (classing by potential). The 1.6
vs. 1.8 debate raged even when I chaired the SCAC. I don't think the
SCAC/SEB would have put the car in C if it thought that it would either
dominate, or be a total dog. It was just time to do it for competition and
demographic reasons. If it was a "new" car with no data points, you don't
put it in C/S for fear of making a successful $5-10,000 class into a $40,000
small "cherry picker" class... If it is campaigned by good drivers and shows
itself to be a true C/S car, then you consider it at that point in time.
CHD
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