Nice to hear the observations and ideas about the Vees.
In the end, probably a number of possible solutions will go out to the
membership for comment.
The feedback that I have received from Topeka Vee meetings is that the Vees
who want to improve their cars are pretty well outnumbered by those who feel
they just want their own class.
That might be possible.
It also might be possible to move them to a slightly slower class.
EM is the only mod class suitable.
While the very fastest EM cars can run top FM times, there aren't many, and
overall, the Vees ought to place much better on the average. Both at Nats as
well as locally.
Vees, in spite of no fenders (not that most EM cars have much in the way of
real fenders)
may be a far better match for most EM than F500 cars in terms of chassis
construction, overall width and CG height.
The swing axles in the rear are probably a given forever with the low cost
Solo-vee concept.
That places their rear roll center very high, like a solid rear axle car in
EM. Not very "formula car" like.
Last, the narrow F500's probably start to generate their own mini-berm
inside of the stock class berm of pavement debris. The slightly wider
Solo-vees have to drive thru this new F500 generated berm when they run with
F500's.
Chuck
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