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Re: Data Recorders

To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
Subject: Re: Data Recorders
From: Jonathan Amo <webmaster@landracing.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:21:37 -0600
Ok I misread Glens email, he stated NASCAR has stiff penalties for using 
TC and SCTA has same deal, stiff penilties. My mistake I just misread 
the email, or just selective reading like my wife says I have selective 
hearing.

Jon

ARDUNDOUG@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 4/17/2002 4:53:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>webmaster@landracing.com writes:
>
>
>>Correct me if I am wrong we are amateur right, NASCAR is not, lets not 
>>become what they are. Lets make our own rules. 
>>Are we having fun yet?
>>
>>Jonathan Amo
>>
>    I have no feelings one way or another on the rule banning data gathering 
>in the new Classic class. However, I see no connection between SCTA-BNI and 
>NASCAR, NHRA, CART, IRL, et.all. SCTA-BNI is a pretty democratic 
>organization. Unless I'm badly misteken the rule changes are not just 
>dictated by a small nucleus of officers behind closed doors. The inputs from 
>all the participants and members of SCTA are passed on to the Rules 
>Committee, which holds meetings open to all association members, at which 
>testimony is heard from interested parties. The whole process is done in a 
>pretty democratic way. Dan, correct me if I'm wrong.
>    My supposition on the data-gathering ban was that because the cars in 
>this new class are from an era where computers were not in wide-spread 
>automotive use yet, and possibly devices like EFI hadn't been invented or 
>perfected yet, the Rules Committee wanted the participants to run this new 
>class with the technology that was available when the cars in this new class 
>were built. What other restrictions are there on the new Classic Class?
>    I haven't received my 2002 Rule Book yet, but that was the general line 
>of thinking that I recall hearing last year when the class was being 
>discussed.......Ardun Doug King

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