jbrennen wrote:pecivil wrote:Or can it be a place where serious competitors can compete against other serious competitors in cars that are very close to equal in performance?
This describes the CC classes, not SS, right?
The SS classes do a better job than the CC classes of making sure that everybody in the class is in roughly the same category with respect to power and weight, and that they have the same options available to them for tires.
I'm not suggesting that every car that ends up classed in SS06 will be equal in performance -- however, I'm suggesting that everybody who optimizes an SS06 car is probably going to end up at a very similar place, no matter where they plan to run. You can't say that about the CC classes, where optimizing for a big track is very different than optimizing for autocross.
While there may be some disagreement on what Jack stated, I very much agree with it.
There definitely seems to be some disagreement on what SS classed "were" intended to be and what reality is today.
Pushing people from a SS class to a CC class will be counter productive for the club and IMHO will reduce participation in our events which will then raise participation costs
More classes means more people get to the podium and that equates to more fun for more people.
There have been many comments above that show a major downside to eliminating 200TW non N tires from SS. Just how many new people will participate in our events if they either have to replace their tires just to participate in SS or have to replace their tires after 1 event because they have been destroyed?
I would ask the question, How many in Zone 8 actually participate in Parade AX?
I would guess it is a fairly small number compared to how many participate in our AX and TT in SS classes.
If the intent truly is to better align with Parade AX rules, then that is what the rules should be, not what is proposed
What in the wild world of sports is the problem with competitiveness in SS?