Howdy,
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Andy Hollis wrote:
> I'll stop here because I think it shows where you and I really differ in our
> perspectives. You are a road racer as much as an autocrosser. That makes
> you fairly unique in the Solo community. Your view on this topic is
> influenced highly by the pecking order established in road racing. It
> really galls you when the autox pecking order doesn't meet with the RR grand
> order of things. This was clear in your diatribe at the Town Hall and in
> your recent communications. But you keep bringing it up and I gotta tell
> ya' Rocky, that it falls on deaf ears when it comes to autocrossers. Autox
> is autox and RR is RR. They emphasize different aspects of performance.
> And very few autocrossers even know of the intricacies of road race classing
> and prep rules.
To emphasize on this some...
I'm one of the folks that starts turning a deaf ear when the "but
roadracing classes do this!" talk starts.
This isn't because I hate roadracers or think they're idiots, or whatever.
Its because solo is different enough from roadracing that I believe
classing decisions can and typically will be different.
Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't steal ideas from them whenever we can.
We can learn a ton from the ways they've tried to deal with shock issues
in SS, how they've bolstered Production numbers, etc.
But when someone says to me that a car is miss-classed in solo because its
classed somewhere else in roadracing with no other information, I tend to
ignore them.
Mark
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