Craig,
I guess I have to reconsider my position given the new rules
wording for Street Touring in the 2000 rulebook. I would
suggest that anyone interested in running STS show up at a
Steering Committee meeting and make a case. I might vote
for it. March 21st at Cocos in Sunnyvale, 7:30 PM, earlier
to eat.
Unfortunately, the way the class is handled in the rulebook
does not make it a slam dunk must run class like B Stock, in my
opinion. I don't know why National does things this way.
Even so, the only place we could consider "honoring" the STS
index is in the PAX class; it would still not be fair to use it
in classes where street tires are called for, and other R tire classes
compete using their open class index.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Boyle <craig_boyle@yahoo.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: FW: FW: 2000 PAX Street Touring Index
>
> ....>
> > > If a Street Touring car wants to run PAX class,
> > they need R tires to be
> > > competitive. Not required of course, but good for
> > one's times.
>
> .. well this is exactly my point, but we seem to be
> reasoning with the same data and drawing different
> conclusions. STS is a legitimate national class (well
> - almost..) , not a local class like "street-tire"
>
> The current ruling isn't quite the same as saying
> "we're not going to recongize B-Stock - all you guys
> can run in S-Stock instead", but it's darn close.
>
>
> > >
> > > So I don't get "honoring" the STS PAX. What
>
> Well, we aren't using the STS pax for STS cars. That's
> what I mean by "not honoring".
>
> > > We had no ST Street Tire entrants in Round 1. We
> > had one I saw yesterday,
> > > and he was a first-timer, I think. Who would
> > really be affected by this
>
> I have an educated guess that at least 50% of the cars
> running STR are on street tires, i.e. are really STS
> entrants. Given that an STS class exists nationally
> (it's as valid as SM or STR, which we *do* recognize)
> - I can think of no reason to enter an STS car in STR.
> It *is* like running a B-Stock car in CSP.
>
> > > issue?
> > > Are you planning to run ST- Street Tire? I guess
> > it sort of bugs me to
> > > have
> > > people make us do work ...
>
>
>
> I think everyone appreciates the work you do Jerry,
> the website is top-notch and the results appear very
> quickly. I remember how well you took the heat after
> allowing 4 runs at a 3 run event you chaired last year
> - a case of common sense triumphing over a steering
> cttee decision - and watched you handle an irate
> newbie with an expired drivers license very well. I
> certainly don't want to annoy you or unnecessarily
> burden you with work, but sooner or later someone else
> is going to point out that out of all the classes SCCA
> has, STS is the one we don't support. It's an
> unnecessary loose end.
>
>
> My interest: I expect to run STS if it is a separate
> class and have invested many $ to this end so far. I
> also think it is flat wrong that we don't recgonize
> STS, whether or not I run it.
>
> Craig
>
>
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