-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To: Rocky Entriken <rocky@tri.net>; Jay Mitchell
<jemitchell@compuserve.com>; knuckledragger@kcweb.net
<knuckledragger@kcweb.net>; autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Scales at Mid-Div
>> In our Divisional series -- and perhaps somewhat because we are a smaller
>> Division -- I don't see much need for weighing my competitors. I know who
is
>> likely to be there in my class -- Bill, Bo, Jeff, maybe Dick, remote
>> possibility of Ron, perhaps some with co-drivers. Mostly I've been
running
>> against these same guys for years, I know them, trust them, have no need
to
>> hassle them. I have seen them be compliant on numerous occasions and have
>> NEVER seen them fail to be compliant. As an individual competitor, I have
no
>> need to force them to cross a scale. Now if some stranger showed up that
we
>> thought was fishy, and we suspected of being underweight, we could file a
>> protest and find scales (Sam probably has them with her). But chances are
>> even if we had a visitor from RMDiv, CenDiv or SWDiv, we'd still be
familiar
>> with him -- and probably know that car had been weight and was legal at
>> Nationals last year.
>
>And if a stranger showed up, how would s/he know about all of YOU? If they
>had a concern, now they have to protest a bunch of cars, and suffer the
>resulting slings and arrows, just to get to a confidence level that they
have
>a right to expect at any Divisional SCCA event?
>
>Sounds a little more harsh from that perspective.
>
>KeS
Well actually there is another quite unrelated bit of sneakiness we practice
here in MiDiv: We're a friendly bunch of motorheads. And when that stranger
shows up, we make him our friend. We try to be open, friendly, helpful, fun.
We want that stranger to have fun too, and thus to come back to play with us
again. To do such requires being, among other things, honest. We try to
project that image, to give that stranger confidence in us. MiDiv is the
friendly division (the road racing side practices that too -- its why we
have a rep for fun events). Not claiming any copyright on fun, just noting
that to create a level of confidence it can be done by other, and
friendlier, means than anal adherence to rules for the sake of adherence.
That stranger doesn't need to protest me to find out my weight. Hell, I may
tell him without his even asking!
--Rocky (135 lbs overweight! No, the CAR!)
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