Andy,
All I have to say is Wow....I hope the SEB does not act like
that.......Letting the price of the car dictate whether it is allowed into a
class. Thats bull.....Especially when you are talking about SS arguably the
most expensive of the stock car classes.....In a time when people are spending
9K on Moton shocks...3K on ultra light wheels......Money is not a problem...
I think SS should be open to cars like the twin turbo porsche....Hell put the
GT2 in the class....Will they dominate....NOPE.. A Z06 is much easier to
drive.....MUCH easier... If SCCA truely WANTs the toughest competition they
have to look for ways to get ALL of the best drivers.....Belive it or not
there are really good Porsche drivers out there that have no place to place in
SCCA.....There cars are buried so deap they don't even waste the time to come
out.
If what you are saying is true...The SEB needs to sit back and really setup a
standard by which cars tested and judged (Not if an SEB member can afford
them). It can no longer use the IF Mark D can win then the car goes up a
class.
If they are truely worried about a big dollar car dominating.....Lets take a
page from the road racers....ADD Weight.....Then you can get personal as
well....If Mark wins everywhere....He keeps getting weight until he is evened
out.....This way a rookie does not have to carry the weight....Something to
think about.....
It is a fact that for any given class there will be a dominate car....Everyone
will be happy about it.....NEVER....If the SEB wants to allow more cars into
fewer classes....It must change how it does business.....Do I have the
answer....Nope....
My two cents....
Pat S
Message: 7
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:41:06 -0600
From: Andy Hollis <awhollis@swbell.net>
Subject: RE: SS Classing.....just curious
The Viper was originally an SS car. It was "sent away" to the exclusion
list when it won the SS championship in its first year of eligibility
(driven by my good friend, Jim Harnish). At that time, SS was a spec-C4
class. The Corvette drivers felt a sense of entitlement to "their" class
and banished the Viper. As we all know, that entitlement soon went away
with the arrival of the RX7TT. Ironic, really. And now the Z06 takes it
back.
So, the Viper was deemed "too good and too expensive" after that first
season. Now, the Viper has been deemed "inferior" to the current SS top-dog
(Z06), so it got let back in during the reorg last year. And the new one
(SRT-10) is also going to SS for the same reason.
The Porsche (996 Twin Turbo) has been banished mostly due to cost. Its has
the potential to dominate, but that cannot be clearly established since
their is so little data. But, the SAC/SEB have decided its not in the
membership's best interests to even risk allowing a car that has that
potential to dominate when its costs so much money ($100K). This is also
the case with the Ferrari 360, even though there has been one campaigned
nationally in ASP.
Why did the Z06 not get banished as well? The easy answer is that it fell
on the other side of the "expensive" marker, not that's exactly cheap. And
its considered just an option package on the C5. The theory is that a
regular C5 could be prepped within the same basic ballpark as a Z06. Not
quite as good, but within sight.
There was also a "member interest" element to the decision (or actually, the
lack of decision) on the Z06. LOTS of people wanted to buy/run them. This
was not the case with any of the other cars on exclusion list
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