Chris,
You might want to fasten up your 6pt harness and get ready for a good ride.
More to come !
Gi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [F500] Fw: Pit Stop... BREAKING NEWS!
Gil, thanks for the inside scoop and lack of sleep!!!
I assume that means that FV/FF/CF/F500 will be scored together???
CR
Gil Osenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Racers !
Just got an update from our WDCR SCCA (DC Region) Comp Committee and am
posting it as an FYI !
More than likely other Regions will be addressing these same issues in
timely
fashion, the DC region is maybe the first out of the box !
Gil
Before you hear it somewhere else, I have some breaking news to relay to
all
of you....
Last night we had a Competition Committee meeting and the agenda was that
age
old question of car counts and car groupings. Given how meetings with that
agenda went in the past I sort of figured that this was going to be a
looooong
meeting and it was......
The first order of business was allowing a new class to compete within ITE
and
that class is going to be called "Street Prepared". Those of you that are
like
me and race Solo as well as Club Racing will immediately recognize that
class
as an existing Solo classification and that is exactly what it will be in
Club
Racing as well. What this means is that a car that is prepped to the Solo
"Street Prepared" rules WITH full safety equipment will now be able to run
with the ITE race group in MARRS races. This will give those people racing
Solo events in Street Prepared an avenue to take their cars straight to
the
track without having to modify them again to a pre-existing Club Racing
classification and hopefully will create some more cross over between the
two
groups allowing someone to race their car all year in both Solo and Club
Racing. This new class will compete this coming year.... Full details will
be
forthcoming soon.
The second order of business was revisiting car counts and this is where
the
meeting became very acrimonious..... That age old question of what to do
about
the Open Wheel dwindling car counts and Race Groups that for the last
several
years have had only 12 or so race cars participating. We all know that in
many
of the Wings and Things race group there were only a few cars in each
class
competing with some classes often having only one competitor while some of
the
closed wheel race groups are packed to the gills with typically 40 to 45
cars,
specifically the IT groups. The topic that was revisited was combining all
open wheel cars into one class which would free up another race group slot
allowing for recombining the existing race groups which in turn would
allow
all groups to be at a more manageable 30 to 35 car race group. Needless to
say
there were some very heated moments between the open wheel class reps and
the
closed wheel class reps. Their were a few times I thought it was going to
end
up in an old fashioned bar brawl but luckily it didn't. After much heated
discussion (I won't go into the details of the almost two hour discussion
and
who held what position in the discussion as it was far too complicated to
relate into words tonight) a proposal was offered to the committee to
combine
all open wheeled cars and to "regionally restrict" the classes of Formula
Atlantic, Formula Continental, FSCCA, Formula Mazda, and the new Formula
1000
meaning this new open wheel race group would consist of only Fomula Vee,
Formula Ford, Club Ford, and F500. A vote using a show of hands came out
10 to
10 with several abstentions. A roll call vote was then instituted with
each
representitive citing Yay, Nay, or Abstaining and this vote came out 12 to
9
in favor of creating this new race group with some of the reps changing
their
vote and therefore the proposal was adopted. For the record, I voted Nay
hoping we would give open wheel one more year to increase their numbers
and
revisit the topic next winter because, although the car counts are low, I
enjoy seeing these cars on the track. Also for the record, and interesting
to
me at least, the vote was Yay for all of the closed wheel drivers reps
while
most of the specialty chiefs voted Nay. After a break the FC rep Chas
Shaeffer
walked out of the meeting as did the FV rep Bob Tupper. This left only
John
Nesbitt the FF rep as the only open wheel driver rep remaining at the
meeting.
Honestly I don't feel good about what happened and I don't think anyone
did or
very few at least. As a driver who races in one of the largest race groups
I
was willing to go another year in a large race group and give open wheel
another year to increase their numbers but realistically that additional
year
probably wouldn't have made much of a difference. The cars that are now
restricted are very expensive to own and race so a flood of new cars
probably
wouldn't have been something that would happen.... I'm very sad to see
these
cars leave the MARRS series though and I for one will miss them.
What this now means is that the race groups have once again been
reshuffled
and remixed. These are the new unofficial (cuz I may have goofed writing
them
down) race groups:
1) Spec Miata
2) SS Miata
3) ITB/ITC
4) ITS/ITA/ITR (I'm gonna get creamed....)
5) SRX7/IT7/SSB/SSC
6) Small Bore/T4 (new class)
7) Big Bore/T1/T2/P1/P2 (the last two are the two new classes for World
Challenge cars)
8) SRF/CSR/DSR
9) FV/FF/CF/F500 (all open wheel)
All car counts for each race group "should" be in the 30's.....
The meeting was then adjourned.....
Lauren
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