I like zerobanger's proposal better than the others. That makes too much sense to be adopted. :D

 

I raced a Taurus SHO in GS for the '00 season. So I think I have you beat on racing uncompetetive cars!

Actually with the S2000 the current outcry is "unfair!" that it's being put in AS. They're convinced it's uncompetetive. I'm convinced the '00-'03 car would dominate AS, but everyone underestimates how quick the EVO / STi are going to be once they're developed a little bit. AS is going to get quicker. I think with ALL the S2000s in there, both AS and BS will be interesting.

Then of course the C6 corvette and Elise are going to come out and require another restructuring of classes.

I personally couldn't care about being nationally competetive, so I'm not going to be car hopping. As such the class structure changing doesn't affect me too much.

 

Interestingly, if the S2000's had been in AS last year, they would have taken 2nd through 4th in AS at Nationals, splitting the first two Vettes.

 

I found it in Fastrack where it was confirmed that the 04 will be in AS, also found this little snipet which you RX_8 guys should find interesting...


"The SAC has requested member feedback
regarding the following proposal:
Effective 1/1/2005, move the Honda
S2000 ('00-'03) and Porsche Boxster ('97+)
to AS (ref. 03-791). Comment: This proposal
accompanies classing of the 2004
Honda S2000 (see Tech Bulletin below).
The SAC feels that the new S2000 should
represent an improvement over the current
car. The differential between BS and AS
now is relatively small and the '04 S2000
should be competitive in AS. This move
protects current participation in BS and
provides growth opportunity for AS. It also
provides a method for longer term ('05)
classing strategy to be possible if supported
by member comment. "

 

Heh, cool!

I was put in AS the first time I ran my stock RX8!

 

Uh, you mean me? :D Thanks for the potential compliment. Hopefully, I won't need too much of an adjustment period coming from the 325xiT monster truck.

 

Haha, hello Clyde, I'm sure you will do fine. Though I have managed a couple tweaks to my car in the off season, still chasing the dream I guess

I'm registered for the season series. See you at the test and tune?

 

I'm not sure if I'll make the test & tune on Mar 28 with my wife being due on the 30th. Hopefully, someone (p car club?) will put on an event before that.

I figure that you have as good a shot in BS as anyone, regardless of car.

 

Thanks for the compliment, but Greg Obadia is pretty good, so is Vic Madrid. With those guys driving S2000s it's going to be pretty hard to win. Hell, Greg was running times to beat every single SM car last season! Impressive.

When are you ordering your slicks? :D

 

The scary thing is that Greg doesn't even really know what he's doing yet. He can just drive. I thought that Vic was selling his S2K and moving out of BS. He recently bought a kart...

I heard that Hoosier was supposed to be starting a production run of the A3S04s in 245/35-18 this week or next. I haven't tried to get pricing info yet. Still, I may run the first couple events on the street tires to learn the car. The last NCC event where I borrowed the E46 M3 was the only one I did with RWD. Everything else I drove last year was AWD. I don't want to tear up a perfectly good set of hohos while I'm getting the driver sorted. :D