I am a bit confused. Do old TR cars run together with modern cars?
Here in Germany cars with date of made before end of '61 don't need any
security system. Others with an engine size below 2.000ccm need just a roll
bar. Cars with bigger engine need a cage. Cars that are older than 20 years
are not allowd to drive together with modern cars.
I have a 2.000ccm TR4 and use just a roll bar. That looks ok.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'William G Rosenbach'" <wgrosenbach@juno.com>;
<fpspitfire@insightbb.com>
Cc: <triumph_marx@freenet.de>; <fot@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: SCCA cages
> Here in Oregon the SCCA vintage grid is everything that shows up--one
grid.
> I enjoy it, but I think it's a bit terrifying occasionally. The GT-1 cars
> are hard to get around just because they look so big when you're in a low
> car like Peyote. I always try to pass them early in the entrance to the
> fiddly stuff, or they'll come whistling by just at the end of the
straight.
> Late in the race it's a decent tactic to let them do that, because they're
> always out of brakes and they usually straighten out the corner and get
> seriously agricultural.
>
> Of course if one of them ever hits me they'll turn Peyote back into a
> collection of beer cans and old road signs.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf
> Of William G Rosenbach
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:41 AM
> To: fpspitfire@insightbb.com
> Cc: triumph_marx@freenet.de; fot@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: SCCA cages
>
>
> Aaron,
> Will SCCA still allow an early SCCA car, with its log book number stamped
on
> its rollbar, to run in a SCCA sanctioned vintage race, configured just as
it
> was when first raced?
>
> Some years back, SCCA ran a race at Colorado's Pueblo Motorsports Park, in
> which they grouped all cars with doors and fenders in a single group. That
> group included 2, GT-1 cars. One, a humble GT-1, the other, an ex-Jack
> Rousch Trans-Am car. The Trans-Am car qualified 20.0 seconds or so quicker
> than todays fast vintage cars. It lapped the other GT-1 car and took the
> checker before the smaller Production cars had run half the race distance.
I
> do not recall anyone protesting, which was a surprise. That kind if thing
> alone should keep them in their own groups.
>
> Bill
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:12:50 +0000 fpspitfire@insightbb.com writes:
> > Chris...
> > No they aren't...Full cages became required about '96 because of an
> > incedent
> > between a GT1 car and an H-Production car I believe. Now things are
> > little
> > different. Most production drivers of F/G/H boycott run groupings
> > which place
> > GT1/2 with them.
> >
> > I didn't see my response post yet...probably a good thing!
> >
> > aaron
> >
> > --
> > All the best
> > Aaron Johnson
> > #38 FP Spitfire Mk4 Southern Illinois Region SCCA
> > http://www.geocities.com/spitracer9
> >
> >
> > > Are simple roll bars behind the driver not allowed in SCCA?
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> >
>
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