Jad wrote:
Does anyone have an opinion on the merits of completely changing SS next year to be a class in which any car purchased from the dealer with factory options would be allowed. Yes, this means X50 package cars run SS, but I think the SS is the least competitive and anyone should be able to buy their car and bring it down to run. The higher classes are more likely to build cheater cars.
Krokodil wrote:The SS ranks are mostly made up of newer members in newer cars (certainly not exclusively, but primarily) and these are exactly the folks we want staying with the program or we are going to become the Porsche Vintage AX Club. We need to make it easy and fair (within tolerance) for these folks to competitively run what they bought in an entry level class (SS).
I agree that the majority of the cars in SS are members who bought their cars at the dealer or private party and then decided to AX them and see what they could do. I think there would be a very small percentage (.0001%?) of drivers who would actually go out and order PASM, etc just to gain an advantage at an AX. I know that when I started out in my Boxster, it was just to see what the car and I could do. I've since moved on to a 944 spec car and only occasionally AX the Boxster (when the 944 is out for repairs or the AX is too close to a big track day).
Let's let the SS cars race each other however they came from the dealership on slippery street tires and may the best driver (because that's what will be the determining factor) win!
That's my opinion
BTW - Duane did beat me last August on very worn tires because he outdrove me.