100% agreement from me.
mayf
At 01:03 PM 11/29/99 -0800, Thomas E. Bryant wrote:
>Group:
>Since I am not presently running your ECTA meets, maybe I have no
>business jumping in here, but I just want to make some points for your
>consideration.
>
>First, I guess I don't get this going up in class with a smaller engine.
>If engine displacement is the determining factor for class (A, B, C,
>etc.) designation, how can a smaller engine be entered in a larger
>class? My understanding of the SCTA rules is that the engine is measured
>to determine if it is a legal engine in that class. In the rules for
>record engine measurement says, "Measurement may be made with a SCTA
>approved displacement device if the engine displacement is NOT within 3%
>of the upper or lower cubic inch break for the class." To me this says,
>If you don't fit within the upper and lower limits of the class, no
>record.
>
>Secondly, I think that you are setting yourself up for trouble down the
>road if you don't adhere to some rigid set of standards. I can remember
>setting a record at Bonneville in the D/GR class that was a couple of
>miles per hour faster than the C/GR record. We also qualified faster
>than "C" class that year. As for open minimums, I don't know, it seems
>to me that a record that means anything has to surpass some reasonable
>speed. Particularly if there is a point system in place, reasonable
>minimums need to be set so that it is fair to the people competing
>against established records.
>
>The 200 MPH thing is a different story. The rules you set everyone lives
>by. I believe, to enter the Bonneville 200 MPH Club originally, just a
>time in excess of 200 MPH was all that was needed. As time progressed
>they changed the rules.
>
>I don't agree that by making it easy to get a record that you increase
>your attendance or entries, if that is true, then the records overall
>will have less meaning.
>
>Again, I'm not presuming to tell you how to organize ECTA, just some
>things to think about while you proceed.
>
>Tom, Redding CA - 1 PM PST
>
>
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