<< You're right, nothing should be that cut and dry. Perhaps I'm a little stong in my words....but I have ran and showed at many events and I can tell you first hand that a nice black Alpine driven across a dry dusty field has no chance against a trailered, covered, here's my baby car. One for thought: I had a member of our old club who would flat bed his Tiger to the nearest hotel, then drive the last few miles like he drove the entire distance......it took us a few meets to flush this guy out......fairness is all I ask for.... >>
We ask for the same thing.
I'll admit to being oversensitive to the issue, given my experiences with the west-coast Tigers United events the past five or six years.
I do recognize the "trailer queen" problem, and frankly do not have a solution for it. I just know from personal experience that all trailered cars simply do not fit the profile.
We went to an all-British event in Santa Cruz a couple of years ago. It was a real nice event. And the organizers made it quite clear that it was for "driven" cars. I think the registration materials even went so far as to say "no trailered cars." Now I know exactly what they meant, and they didn't mean any of my cars. So what if I trailer my street-driven car up there? Well, on second thought . . . as long as I don't win a trophy, so what . . .?
Anway thank you for seing my point of view. I just wish I could come up with some alternatives. I remember my first reaction when I started seeing a tendency to try to penalize the trailer-folks in some way was the exact opposite of what everybody else was thinking . . . (Yeah, so what's new?) Instead of penalizing the trailer-folks, how about encouraging the driver- folks? An extra point or two, or maybe five on the concourse? (I don't know, I don't pay much attention to the coucourse game, except for when I have to switch wheels/tires for it.)
Anybody else got a clue about what would be FAIR treatment for both trailered and driven cars at events?
Ramon