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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