General membership of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club.
I agree, once inacted, changing the minimums was really cruel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Warner" <dwarner@electrorent.com>
To: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums
> John,
>
> General membership of the club or the BNI? Remember that the club is not a
> function of the SCTA-BNI.
>
> It might be a good idea to express the feelings that the minimums should
> remain in place and not be modified each year depending on the records set
> the previous season.
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
> To: <SaltyCuda@aol.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:11 AM
> Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums
>
>
> > Well I'm not trying to change any of them. Just trying to find out what
> some
> > of the new ones are. But I sure don't like the idea. Guess my big beef
is
> > that they were never brought up to the general membership before being
> > inacted.
> >
> > John Beckett
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <SaltyCuda@aol.com>
> > To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: 200 Club Minimums
> >
> >
> > > All I want to say about minimums is once they have been set, don't
> revise
> > > them. We put our A motor on the engine stand, build a B motor because
> the
> > > minimum was lower in B than the record in A. However, the 2-club
board
> > > revised the minimums, increasing the B minimum to about 5 mph higher
> than
> > the
> > > A record. We weren't aware of the change until we were on the salt,
in
> > line
> > > for our qualification attempt. We went on to set a record in the
class,
> > but
> > > did not exceed the new minimum. We would have been better off just
> > > freshening up our A motor.
> > >
> > > So if you set them don't change them.
> > >
> > > Jim (frustrated with the system) Snyder.
> > >
> > > PS I got into the club in 1990, AA/Alt class. Long before minimums,
in
> > fact
> > > we had to do it three times to get a record back then. Qualify by
> > exceeding
> > > the record, then the next day at 7:00 a.m. all the previous day's
> > qualifiers,
> > > made a run down the course and back within an hour or so, to get the
two
> > way
> > > average. The attempt with the B motor was in '96 with my partner at
the
> > > wheel, Phil Grisotti.
> > >
> > > J
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