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Re: More Fiero - CS and Miata 1.6l

To: <Smokerbros@aol.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: More Fiero - CS and Miata 1.6l
From: "Paul Foster" <pfoster@gdi.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:44:42 -0400
CHD responds:

>I think that's EXACTLY what they are doing (classing by potential).
The 1.6
>vs. 1.8 debate raged even when I chaired the SCAC.  I don't think the
>SCAC/SEB would have put the car in C if it thought that it would
either
>dominate, or be a total dog.  It was just time to do it for
competition and
>demographic reasons.  If it was a "new" car with no data points, you
don't
>put it in C/S for fear of making a successful $5-10,000 class into a
$40,000
>small "cherry picker" class...  If it is campaigned by good drivers
and shows
>itself to be a true C/S car, then you consider it at that point in
time.


Then why aren't the slower CS cars moved to DS? Could it be that
someone with the initials of CHD proposed the concept that DS should
be a FWD-dominated class???

Paul Foster


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