STL: No National Championship?

[Knestis]

Then they must have been considering it for 2012. Seems as if they are looking at 'real' STL cars as the real data. I am not sure why but that is the story from above.

Sorry - dumb question. "Looking at 'real' STL cars...?" They pulled the "not real" ones from the numbers...?

K

[Andy Bettencourt]

Sorry - dumb question. "Looking at 'real' STL cars...?" They pulled the "not real" ones from the numbers...?

K

I guess they are concerned about the amount of SM's bumping the numbers up - meaning that because there are so few real STL cars that when it comes to a National Championship - and those DD's aren't there, you would have an uber-soft field. It is an interesting thought process if you value your gold medals.

But an entry IS an entry.

[Matt93SE]

How many STU cars at runoffs the last couple years were DD-ing SMs?
they just moved to STL this year instead..

an entry is an entry. If people want to pay their bucks and enter the class and race, it should count as an entry. (We still let SRX7s "race", right?)

[Andy Bettencourt]

. (We still let SRX7s "race", right?)

Well this is not quite the same thing. The debate on the table is defining a 'quality' National Champion. If STL averages 10 cars a National and 9 of them are SM's...and come the Runoffs only the 5 'real' STL cars show up, was that successful or what was intended. For sure no.

Still have another year to build the ranks.

[TStiles]

Isn't raising the 1.8 RWD weight to 2491# is going to "fix" the double dipping " issue " ?

[RacerBowie]

Isn't raising the 1.8 RWD weight to 2491# is going to "fix" the double dipping " issue " ?

No, because they can still double dip at their respective spec weights from THEIR class.

[Knestis]

LOL - Should they only count the non-old-British-POS Production cars in National counts, too...? Not count the IT cars with the minimum changes to run in Prod...?

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[Greg Amy]

I guess they are concerned about the amount of SM's bumping the numbers up...

Don't know where you're getting that "info", Andy, but I talked to a BoD member that was there, and double-dippers were not a factor in the discussion. As I wrote above, it has zero to do with Miatas, and everything to do with the original agreement for bringing STL into the National racing program.

Methinks someone is POOMA'ing you.

GA

[JohnRW]

...I talked to a BoD member that was there, and double-dippers were not a factor in the discussion. As I wrote above, it has zero to do with Miatas, and everything to do with the original agreement for bringing STL into the National racing program....

A +1 on the "BOD just doing what they said they were going to do" thing. A little bird told me.