On the nature of rules and racing

[Turfer]

Originally posted by zracer22:
You guys are missing the point. Sure, you can cheat on the dyno, but who cares. Our intention isn't to stop cheaters, we have better things to do with our time. Rules aren't written for those that cheat, they are written for those that follow them.

Is this the back side barn door????

Rick

[OTLimit]

On getting things changed, and perspective....

Sometimes the benevolent dictatorships work just fine. Isn't WERA (motorcycle) run that way? If it is up to one person to keep the ship afloat, they aren't too likely to rock it very hard or very often.



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Lesley Albin
Over The Limit Racing
Blazen Golden Retrievers

[Banzai240]

Originally posted by cherokee:
Too much power in one persons hands is always a bad thing, and if that person can get his wishes approved by leaning on just a few people thats no better.

You have to understand how the process works to understand why this point doesn't make any sense.

In IT, for example, your request get discussed by the ITAC and "advice" is given to the CRB. The CRB then discusses and a recommendation is sent to the BoD. The BoD then discusses and gives the final approval/disapproval... There are certainly more than enough people involved in the process.

I think that the fears of any single person having that much influence over these decisions are blown out of proportion. There may have been a couple of isolated incidents in the past, but the only reason they perpetuate is because there hasn't been a valid mechnism to fix the problem.

PCAs are one method to try to remedy that. Not perfect, but better than the one shot to get it right that we have now...


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Darin E. Jordan
SCCA #273080, OR/NW Regions
Renton, WA
ITS '97 240SX

[cherokee]

Originally posted by Banzai240:

In IT, for example, your request get discussed by the ITAC and "advice" is given to the CRB. The CRB then discusses and a recommendation is sent to the BoD. The BoD then discusses and gives the final approval/disapproval...

This is all well and good but would think that if the ITAC represents the IT community then they should be making the final decisions. They are the people that are the most intrested and run with the cars in question. The CRB and the Bod should make recommendations to the ITAC. The CRB and the BoD should advise the different groups on what should be done. Moving SS cars into IT groups when the time comes or adding a new class for example, But the final word should be from the people that are running the cars in question. That way we will be less likely to end up with a Z4 in ITB....if you get my drift.