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Re: Sequential Stock Classes

To: bthatch@juno.com, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Sequential Stock Classes
From: Ghsharp@aol.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:05:02 EDT
In a message dated 7/6/00 5:48:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bthatch@juno.com 
writes:

> Bill Martin sez:
>  
>  Perhaps a better approach would be to abandon SC,BoB in favor of straight
>  AX
>  potential.  Class 1 is for your fastest cars, Class 9 for slowest. 
>  
>  (snip)  The initial placement would of course be by SEB with SCAC input.
>  Errors could be sorted out along the way, and fixing them is pretty easy
>  since all the rungs of the ladder are now sequential.  
>  
>  As to course dependency, I think you have to aim for a typical Nationals
>  / Tour type
>  course.  This means regions running on postage stamp courses or running
>  pseudo Solo I's will have some problems.  But hey, there's never going to
>  be
>  a perfect solution.  I believe there will be fewer built-in inequities
>  with
>  this type of system, and it could significantly reduce costs of this
>  sport
>  by giving older cars an opportunity for ongoing competitive classing.
>  
>  My reply:
>  
>  Hear, hear for this proposal!!! Brilliantly simple and easy to sort cars.
>  I LIKE IT. Kinda takes the politics and sponsorship potential inequities
>  out of it, too. Let's do it. But, methinks, some will hate the simplicity
>  of it.
>  
>  Ben Thatcher

OK, so take the cars in the current proposal and show us where you would
put them.  Not just a few of them, but all of them.  If it's simple it 
shouldn't
take very long, right?

GH

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