John, you must have missed the email to ba-autox regarding this from Don
McKenna. The same thing was done in SFR a week or so ago. We now have a
regional STS-ST PAX to resolve this. It is .810 for STS and .830 for STX.
Here is what Don said:
quote:
To all:
The SFR SCCA SOLO II Steering Committee (SC), at the monthly meeting held
4-16-02, established region-only indexes for class STS and STX competitors
choosing to run in the Street Tire class.
Effective for future events, starting 4-21-02, STS/STX competitors, who
elect to run with the Street Tire class, will be assigned an index, for use
in calculating their finishing position, other than their regular class
index, as follows:
STS .810
STX .830
The reson for this change is to, effectively, "level" the playing field. All
other classes, when running in the Street Tire class, are assigned the index
of their regular DOT "R" or race tire class. Previous to this year, STS
competitors running in the Street Tire class were assigned the index for
class STR.
It was an SC oversight, when the 2002 National rules eliminated class STR
and established class STX, to have not anticipated the possibility that
either, or both, STS/STX class competitors might enter their cars in the SFR
Street Tire class and, as a result, benefit from the use of their "softer"
street-tired class index for calculating Street Tire class finishing
position.
Don, for the SC
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: John J. Stimson-III [mailto:john@harlie.idsfa.net]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:10 PM
To: siastuning@attbi.com
Cc: Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}; Bay Area Autox
Subject: Re: Tour Entry Update
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:13:05PM +0000, siastuning@attbi.com wrote:
> Peter,
>
> If some one wants to run novice they need to specify
> their class and "NOVICE" on their entry. All novices
> will run in one class and be paxed off the class they
> enter with. AS-NOVICE, DSP-NOVICE, STS-ST-NOVICE, OSP-
> NOVICE ect.
Vic,
That still leaves the question of what PAX index will be used for
STS/STX in the novice class. Both of those classes run on street
tires anyway. We used to handle it by using the STR index for street
touring cars in a street tire class, but this year there is no STR
national class, and there has never been an STX-R class. AAS has
created some PAX indices for STS and STX to use when competing in an
indexed street tire class, to account for the difference between
street tires and R tires.
--
john@idsfa.net John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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