usually road race cars had a parallel class in solo II. for example, arent
SCCA-ITS cars legal in CSP, even if they dont meet the CSP rules?
-james
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Noll" <rnoll98@yahoo.com>
To: "ba-autox" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: DOT Race Tires may become illegal
> So, is this something we could implement locally? I know, I know, go to
> a steering comittee meeting yadda yadda. I've been, and I will. Would
> there be any interest?
>
> Randy
>
>
> > Sway bars, shocks, ride heights, now tires. There's just constantly
> > been a voice in the back of my head:
> >
> > Spec Classes
> >
> > Look what spec miata has done for road racing. It seems to have
> > opened
> > up the door for a ton of budget minded people to be able to race a
> > fully prepared, safe, and competitive car. We could easily make a
> > spec-z06 class and a spec-MR2 class and probably only lose 5-10% of
> > the
> > members from each class (e.g. their cars would have to be classed
> > elsewhere).
> >
> > The Z06 class might not make much sense (the cars are relatively
> > expensive to start with), but a spec-MR2 class, spec-Miata class,
> > and/or spec-[insert popular inexpensive FWD car here] class would be
> > an
> > instant success. Low budget, fun cars, and the best driver wins. Of
> > course there goes 90% of our excuses too. "Well he spent $6k on
> > shocks
> > and that's the ONLY reason he was 2 seconds ahead of me..."
> >
> > This club has an incredible amount of "I already spent a load of
> > money
> > on my car and I ain't gonna change it", which is totally
> > understandable. But at the same time we're creating huge barriers to
> > entry for new drivers to run nationally competitive cars.
> >
> > Why not bring spec-miata straight over from road racing, roll bars
> > and
> > all? It'll bring back all the 1st gen miatas that more or less fell
> > off
> > when the MR2 started to be the car of choice. It solves some people's
> > problem of "I want a competitive autox car and road race car." It
> > will
> > help bridge the gap between autocrossers and road racers (I know, we
> > think they're evil :P).
> >
> > But Randy, we don't need another class! Then why the heck are we
> > creating SM2? We've got enough classes where you need to spend over
> > $40k to be competitive. Bring spec-miata over. I'd bet the first year
> > we'd have at least 30 cars at nationals.
> >
> > Randy N
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