> No I didn't read it. And no, I doubt I'll ever read that magazine. I
don't
> read Cosmopolitan either. Nor do I read gun magazines, extreme sports
> magazines, religious magazines, or actually any magazines other than
> Autoweek, Road & Track and Panorama. But I don't think that necessarily
> makes me some sort of bad person. It just makes me a sports car nut as in
> the 'Sports Car' Club of America.
Then why comment on whether or not a Supra fits the SM demographic, if you
don't know what that demographic is?
> But you stated it in a nutshell. It is a "hot-rodding" craze. It is not an
> autocrossing craze and it never will be even if we have a dress code that
> forces everybody to wear clothes 2 sizes too large.
News flash... There never has been an Autocrossing craze. On the motorsports
totem pole, autocrossing is in between things like, "no, I mean REAL racing"
and "what the hell is THAT?", and it's REAL close to "you mean you don't do
that on dirt like the motorcycles do?". In other words, it's obscure.
There's a lot of people that don't even know what SCCA is.
All of your new membership WILL come from other motorsports. Get used to it.
I'm willing to bet that over 75% of the current autocrossers started out
racing in some other series, and migrated over. The best you can do is
figure out how to lure the largest amount of them over.
> There are too few classes for this sort of nonsense. It will not attract
> lots of new autocrossers. It will attract people who like to tinker with
> with a particular type of car that for the most part don't happen to be
> sports cars (other than those 'sedanish' Camaros and those 'sedanish'
Civic
> Sis and the other exceptions someone decided to include because they are
> politically correct to a certain group of people.
First, there's too many classes to add SM, then there's too few. Which is
it?
2nd News Flash.... SCCA as a whole attracts people who like to tinker with a
particular type of car that for the most part DO happen to be sports cars,
but then you get into that whole 'what is a sports car?' thing....
3rd News Flash... There really isn't that many pure 'sports cars'. That
means if you want to grow beyond the pure sports car ownership pool, you
gotta make room for cars that are 'sports car-ish', which currently
outnumber 'sports cars' by a considerable margin.
BTW, your car is not a sports car, by purist standards. (and to think,
you're fighting to get in a sedan class.....) Oh, the shame..... <grin>
> And yes, the far majority of them would be competing in some other class
if
> SM didn't exist.
Try again. The ones we do have so far, would be competing in some other
series/club if SM/STS didn't exist. That's WHY classes like SM have
surfaced.
Just think... the trends toward sedans and trucks could get worse and there
might not BE any pure sports cars, other than the museum pieces, then, SCCA
might stand for Sedan Car Club of America....
Mike CP58
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