> Seems to me you're asking for an enormous amount of work on the
> part of volunteer SCCA officials to enforce something. Do you really see a
> need to claim some guy's stock fuel injection system? How would he get
> home?
M.J. did say "non-stock parts", so you wouldn't be allowed to claim
some guy's stock fueld injection system.
> Do you want to claim tires? Batteries? Wheels? Crash bolts?
I think the idea is to play by the stock class rules, but additionally
stipulate that any of the allowable modifications be claim-able. The
point would be to reduce the tendency to install parts that although
technically legal, few others are willing to use because of the
expense.
It would only work in a series though. If someone is determined to
win a single event, Topeka for example, they may be willing to buy a
$4000 set of shocks just for that event. I think they'd be less
willing to buy a dozen such sets to win a series.
How much extra work would it make for the officials? This could still
be something that was policed by the competitors. If a 1st place
competitor is unwilling to honor the claim rule, the official would
just disqualify the winner's score, as if the winner had not worked.
Claiming the whole car is a very different concept, and I'm not
surprised it didn't go over well in a sport where people compete in
their personal transportation. I don't think that it's comparable at
all to what M.J. is suggesting.
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john@idsfa.net John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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