Well put Doug, the rule books are available to all, and cheap into the
bargain, if you can't build a car to fit the rules , don't build a car! Paul
(I don't have a soap box, they're all in the States!)
----- Original Message -----
From: <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: varity of classes
> In a message dated 10/9/2001 8:53:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dwarner@electrorent.com writes:
>
>
> > Have you tried to enter your vehicle at the Indy 500, any Winston Cup or
SCCA
> > event? They do not add "classes" for non-conforming vehicles, why must
we?
> >
> > Now you hold the ladder while I attempt to climb from the soap box.
> >
> >
>
> Dan,
> Well stated. Most of us start the building procedure with a
rulebook
> in hand and go from there, building a car and engine for the class we're
> interested in.
> Sometime back someone mentioned "tongue-in-cheek" that pretty soon
we
> will have classes broken down into car colors if we kept up the expansion.
> NASCAR & NHRA even have templates to regulate the shape of the
> door-slammer bodies, leaving only the graphics and colors up to the
> individual entrant.
> To me, building the car first and then looking for a class to run
in
> is putting the cart before the horse. I think it's unreasonable to expect
the
> sanctioning body to create a new class for an entrant that didn't start by
> building within the existing specified classes.
> Ardun Doug
King
>
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