> > Why screw people who choose a car that they thought was the hot
> > ticket, and
> > then proceeded to prove it so? If they did the homework, they
> SHOULD win.
> >
>
> No one is trying to screw anyone. If that was the desired
> intent, there are
> much easier ways to screw lots more people.
Sorry. Poor wording on my part. I know it is nobody's intent to screw
others, it just looks like that will be the net effect of it.
> The attempt of the proposal is to level the playing field so that a large
> variety of cars is competitive. Look to the core values on pg 3 of the
> rulebook. But said core values also drive us towards rules stability. So
> we have to make hard choices. That's why the ud/bd change will either
> happen now, or happen never. And it has implications on the
> whole category
> since the SEB sees ST as a strong potential growth area. Look to Prepared
> for an example of how hard it is to maintain good rules when each
> class has
> its own vagueries. So, we are at an inflection point in the ST category
> development. Remember, STS only recently became a national class.
Agree 100%. Prepared is a great lesson in how NOT to run a category. IMO,
the prep level should define the category, and the classes within that
category simply define which cars are equivalent.
> > Reclassing a car because it wins is a crappy way to conduct things.
>
> Huh? We do this all the time when cars seem out of line with the rest of
> the class. In fact, there's a couple of re-classing proposals in
> the recent
> FastTrack. Why should ST be sacred?
A couple of points. STS should be sacred because there is only one. You
don't currently have the option of bumping a car to the next faster class,
as there isn't one. If a current STS car becomes illegal for STS, it has to
jump to an entire other category. Also, and perhaps this is my prejudice
speaking, but I don't see the 4G civic as being out of line with the rest of
STS. I see the 4G Civic as one of the foundations of the entire Sport
Compact phenomenon. If the GTi is the car that created the pocket rocket,
the 4G Civic Si is the car that took it to the next level. So to exclude it
from the class that is meant for sport compacts just seems fundamentally
wrong. <Insert irrelevant comments about class philosophy>
Dave Hardy
89 SM
DILYSI Motorsports - Drive It Like You Stole It!
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