The "intent" in the rulebook doesn't say anything about the "expense" of modifications.... you are taking that out of context... It says "inexpensive cars", which, you are correct, is relative to the consumer of said car... but has NOTHING to do with what is allowed to be modified on said car.
The intent says specifically that the rules are to
"restrict modifications to those useful and necessary to construct a safe race car." Open ECUs are neither
"necessary to construct a safe race car", and serve no "usefulness", in constructing a safe racecar... Their modification is purely a performance related allowance. Increasing/modifying the performance of a car, or otherwords making modications
"for the purpose of obtaining any competitive advantage", is not mentioned anywhere in the rulebook of this class as something that is within the intent of IT as a class.
So, what is being done is to take a bad rule, which essentially was outside of the intent of the class to start with, and use it as a basis to further open up the class...
And if you guys think that "Everyone" is going to gain from opening this up... you're misinformed about the tech... The "Rich Guys" are now not limited to just what they can fit into the box, so while the "Everyone" you are talking about are out buying their stuff off the shelf and trying to figure out how to make it work... those with the means will be taking the stuff off the shelf, and then spending their dough to improve on that, have experts install it, and anything else that I may not have thought of to otherwise "gain a competitive advantage".
Basically, you will have made it cost more money for EVERYONE!
And all outside of the written intent of this class...
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