Dan:
Your concern about the different performance of a car with, say 10 points in a P class vs the 20-points max will always be there given our class/point system. The BRI measure will have to follow those class breaks as we cannot be making minute adjustments for every 2 points within a class. The system would be impossible to police and would get out of hand. For this reason, it behooves competitors to think twice if and how they want to modify their car because their decision might place them at the low-end of a higher class and thus render them uncompetitive. Part of the fun and challenge of what we do is to try to set up our cars so that we can be competitive within the points and cost allowances that represent our constraints.
Anyway, more to the point are your comments that you also agree with Tom's expert remarks about the need to spread out the BRI factors between lower and higher car classes to take into account the higher speed potential of the higher classes in a TT setting vs an AX. Does anybody think otherwise and if so, why?
Interestingly, based on a new Rules proposal for 2006, Stock classes will likely be allowed 8 points of modifications, up from 6. Given that other classes remain the same, the BRI factor of Stock classes should also be adjusted upwards by the same proportion.
Any other comments?