The Snipester touched on why AM is losing members. The cost of entry is
WAY to high. The monsters that are being built now (Phantom, Dragon) are
hand built from the ground up with thousands of engineering hours into
them. Yes it's fun to build something unlimited; but to do so and get
beaten by 5+ seconds at Nationals? What is the incentive to race against
one of these machines?
As far as the karts, there are not in the same league as AM - or even a top
BM car/driver. You may be looking at your own local results, and we all
know how skewed those can be in any Region. Take a quick look at F125 vs.
AM this year at Nationals: I know AM ran in the rain one day so it is at
worst equal, at best a total trouncing: AM-103.150 F125-110.595
Even though Bill Goodale is from my Region, and is the current National
Champ, I think the car needs another year or two in development to compete
with the Phantom. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the two meet in 1998?
I looked on the SCCA website but it looks as if the 1998 results are
gone...anyone have them? Goodale had a Tui before so the entry list should
be the proof.
AB
"Larry R. Metz" <lrmetz@home.com> on 12/22/99 07:10:31 AM
Please respond to "Larry R. Metz" <lrmetz@home.com>
To: Paul Czarnecki <oblique@alum.mit.edu>
cc: "Team.Net" <autox@autox.team.net> (bcc: Andrew Bettencourt/FIELD
SALES/Kingston)
Subject: Re: Fine Print
Opinion froma Solo Vee driver....
I believe that the interest in AM is lowered due to the karts. Why put
so much engineering and money in a car, and be beat by a kid in a
Kart?? The glory of having fastest car is gone....so my make the
effort?? I say take out the karts and AM will grow again. Otherwise,
what is different from BM
Larry #66 solo vee and #6 real 1200 soloing vee(which has no competitive
place to run)
Paul Czarnecki wrote:
>
> >
> >What's the point in having a rule if we're going to allow exceptions?
If you
> >make an exception for AM, how are you going to justify not making the
same
> >exception for another class?
>
> Simple. If that class is faster than AM, let it live.
>
> > Since the current level of commitment to build
> >and tune a dominating AM vehicle currently exceeds $100k for a sport
that
> >offers no financial payback whatsoever, only payout, then I guess that
would
> >qualify as rare.
> >
>
> I might be going out on a limb here, so I'm sure someone will correct
> me if I am wrong, but I believe that the current AM champion car did
> not cost anywhere near that amount.
>
> > - IndyCar designers ain't cheap
>
> Again, correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think the car designer
> has done Indy Car work.
>
> (And yes, I very much want to see the Dragon and the Phantom meet.)
>
> pZ
> --
> Paul Czarnecki
>
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