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Re: Sequential Stock Classes

To: Ghsharp@aol.com, bthatch@juno.com, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Sequential Stock Classes
From: "Kevin Stevens" <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:12:44 PDT
Simple != easy
Complex != difficult

KeS

BTW, while you're at it chop off that front bar allowance.


>From: Ghsharp@aol.com
>Reply-To: Ghsharp@aol.com
>To: bthatch@juno.com, autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Sequential Stock Classes
>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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