Howdy
part of the rule book problem, as I see it anyway, is the current
rule makers are trying too hard to make the rule book perfect, which
on one hand is a good thing, some guys in new hampshire who have
never been to the salt can build a car/bike and it will meet the
rules, (if anybody is from NH, please excuse me for using your state
as one of my points, its just pretty far away and the first state I
thought of, besides, I think the state is cool) and in the 60's and
70's most everyone who raced was from the left part of the country
and knew most everybody. As I look at my build diary, I see that I
tried very hard to build to the edge of the rules, without breaking
them, following the path that Smokey Yunick made. I also had to make
numerous phone calls to tech guys asking questions that, once I raced
on the Salt, were readily apparent, but not to my eyes in 1991 when I
was reading the rule book then building. I think that some of the
motorcycle and car rule redoing now is from the Yunick philosophy
being followed by racers,and a blurring of the classes was the
result. So now the rule committee is trying to redo the class
outlines so there is a clear distinction between them again. I do
think that the rules could be a little less verbose, but hey, its
easy to sit here at my computer and criticize, anybody who looks at
my car/bike will say that they would have done something different
during the build.... so I apologize if I stepped out of line...
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:14:40 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>From: James Tone <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re:Rule books of the past
>There were no El Mirage Records in the book then. There were very
few Gas classes. Real race cars ran on fuel. Blowers were integrated
into >the engine breaks. Very few M/C classes. Everyone knew what an
engine swap, step pan, belly pan, roadster, etc: was. Now out of
work >lawyers are building race cars. Hey that's life....Good Luck...J.D.
>I wonder why it's so big now?
>Mike
John Robinson, Mechanician
Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin
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Bonneville Salt Flats
H/GCC 92 cu.in. 1980 Dodge Colt
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95.193 MPH set 2001
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