EXACTLY Chris...glad someone else gets it. Let's not forget to mention better potential reliability with the proposed "ALTERNATIVE" package. Honestly, what other class spends more time working on their cars at the track than us? None...including CSR, DSR, F1000 or those stupid mini stock car wanna-be's that have motorcycle engines in them. We all watch them as they walk by us going to the social on Saturday afternoon to drink free beer. We're usually the first to get there, the last to leave and the busiest during the day...atleast if you're running up front that is. It's been like that for the past 5 years that I've raced 500's and I've seen if from others I've competed against as well. That's why we do have the friendliest class b/c we spend all our time helping each other repair our cars or loaning out spare parts to fix them. I know some of you are laughing right now at the truth of this!
At the Road Atlanta national, Dan and Clint spent a boat load of time working on his and my 500 (both engine related), not to mention Clint staying at the track later that evening to help put a spare 494 in Chuck McAbee's car so he could make the race. The next weekend at the regional at CMP, I watched Mark Lindsey's team spend a good bit of time working on his two cars as well as Greg Rheile having to leave early based on a component failure (not engine related) that he was unable to repair in time to make the race. I was able to observe all of this b/c all I had to do was check oil, lug nuts and tire pressures on my Spec Miata that I was racing for those 3 races! I also made every practice & qualifying session plus finished every lap of each race. I can't say the same for the majority of the 500's I've mentioned here. js "Chuck, IMHO in the case of the F500 conversion, you end up with car you can work on and tune without an engineering degree." ________________________________ 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! ***
