Just remember who buys your older GCR legal F440/F500's. We buy these cars
because we like the idea that other than safety items (see some of Art's
postings) our cars are all GCR legal!
We race and/or Solo the same cars. The gearing and setup are just a little
different. We have a newer KBS in NER with a 493 that is better than a lot
of the Regional and National Road Race Cars I have seen at the tracks here
in New England. I know there are others in the country. We are all in
this together. I guess you could change them to the point that many of us
Solo people would consider staying with what we have so I guess you could
make flower pots out of your old cars and put them on your front lawn. I
would bet if we took a count there are a lot more F440/F500's in Solo II
than Road Racing. I also think that we may buy more tires as a group just
because of the larger number of cars in Solo, even if one of us only buys
one or two sets per year!
At one National Tour event a few years ago, a guy and his very pretty girl
friend had a new set of tires for each of the two days! Very nicely paint
job on their Raptor too!
Sorry to say this, but if I were to win the lottery before Jay sells his
car, it will become a Solo II car and be in my garage. Win a big enough
one and the other one for sale on the web would also be picked up on my
trip. Off course then I would fine some young person to race Jay's car.
Oh well I can only dream of being the Roger Penski of F500! It is a nice
dream isn't it?
BobbyJ
#5 NER SCCA
PS: To Harry K., I think I am starting to be "Older than Dirt" too!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Eveland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [F500] Reminder to Send Input to the CRB/BOD
also need to discuss the separation of the road racing rules vs. the
autocross group. what we have here are 2 totally seperate groups using
the
same rules. So what we end up with is one group wanting changes and the
other group countering it! Its hard enough to get any changes as it is
The fact that you can race your F500 in both worlds and do reasonably
well is a unique aspect of this pair of classes in the SCCA. Rather
than drive the two classes apart, why not have some more of the road
race guys show up at an autox on an off weekend? Autox (at the
regional level) doesn't take anywhere near the time commitment a road
race does, and you'd be advertising the class to a bunch of grassroots
racers. That's how I found out about the class (thanks ted!).
Getting FTD (shouldn't be hard at most local events) and telling the
folks they can go road racing for less than their street car costs has
got to be good advertising for the class.
My $0.02,
-Chris
(www.agentsofentropy.com)
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