All, I do not take exception to what Steven said. I think is was spot on. I do not think his use of the term "race", "racing" "track" meant that he was saying that any input should be restricted to those that are in the GCR "racing" program and that soloists that "race" on a "track" should be excluded. I believe that he meant that the terms "race" or "track" was all inclusive.
And I agree with Jim, I do think he was addressing an individual or individuals on this list who have done nothing in an SCCA environment with "our" cars nor are even members. More often that I would like to hear, soloists say they "race" or refer to the autox site as a "track". So, I think some of you soloists need to lighten up some and give Steven a break :-). And Lee, yes, the SRs are based upon the GCR but we have in the past, and will continue to in the future, diverge ourselves from the GCR if we think the CRB has authorized or changed F500 or 440s in a performance manner that is unnecessary or would upset the classing balance within F Mod. Although we would prefer to stay as close to the GCR as possible, we are not at all glued to it's use. You might want to remember that we have a slightly different environment then the racing folks in that we have other cars of different design in the class and there has to be a certain amount of equality between different vehicles that the GCR racing group do not have to consider. So to those soloists who are amoured with shocks and the addition of unproven equal MC engines to the F Mod type snowmobile powered, puck suspended cars in F Mod now, you might want to think about that a little more :-). Art -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Dodd Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [F500] Participation & who are the Participants Chris and many others, To Quote John Ulrich "Racers Race".... Mind you, you sir don't currently race in F5. Many of you are not currently entitled to voicing any opinion on how to grow a field until you "field" a car of your own. Stop with the M/C pwr and shocks until you actually compete with that thing on the track sir. -Yet to occur, per all your peers. How many of the F5 dissenters have a current SCCA licencse? If Q leaves it's huge! Art races right? ART therefore gets a Major opinion. You're developing for Q? Have a BA & P.E. to go with that F5 National Racing license?-Didn't think so. Both would be a good idea before you voice an opinion to be taken seriously. Yes I know both you & Novak offer to design probono for others, but I don't think Hanley, Q and others would be any more interested than Panoz would be in Chevy designing LMP suspensions for them. Nothing's for free. And I bet they would get exactly what they paid for. How 'bout we limit opinions to those who actually race cars somewhere other than on the bench. And wasn't Jay leaving to design DSR-See SR board on EZboards...He only was waiting to sell his last two F5s.......... Just a thought from someone who sunk 25k over the past 18 months into racing F5s. --And who considers it money well spent. Put your money and car on the track and others will take your seriously. Come race with us!!!! Steven Dodd Texas Chris Wrote But...if nothing is done with this class Q won't have to participate, there won't be a class. As far as rising costs are concerned, have you looked at the sticker on a F500 lately? It's a couple bucks more than it was 10 years ago, and at $20k, it's still nothing to sneeze at, and there's no drysump!!!! As far as Q's R&D money for the motorcycle engine development, your looking at it, I'm doing it for him, and will happy to share whatever info I can with him.... I'm sorry and I'll say it till I'm blue in the face, there's no reason why a car with 600cc "STOCK" motorcycle engine would be any more expensive if not much cheaper to operate than a single source 2 cylinder 2 stroke. ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
