Golf spec

[jlinfert]

Duece Keene, when he runs, generally takes the win down here and his car is ABSOLUTELY legal (and 200 lbs heavier than a MK3).

[jmracer17]

Mike,
Its bone stock (and very very very tired). I have a header for it but not going to put it on until I rebuild the motor (which wont be for a while). We tried chips but they made the car bog coming out of the corner (at least at sebring short) Under this program, what is the weight difference for the 16?? And, is it different from the 1.8 to 2.0? Would we run the weight as it is in the GCR?

[Knestis]

I got beat by Deuce at the SIC last year. He brings the whole package, no doubt.

But I'm also pretty confident that - as a driver - I left enough time on the table at RR to have made up most of that difference.

Frankly, I just don't think that more classes are a good thing for SCCA club racing. And all it would take to "qualify up front and run away" in a spec class like is described here, is EXACTLY what's required to do so in ITB today - budget, engineering, testing, and talent.

Look at NASA's Spec classes - most notably e30 and the 944s. Everything was copacetic in the early seasons until competitive pressures started encouraging the guys/gals who wanted to run up front to go crazy - by building real (gasp!) race engines, for example.

It's not rules that control costs: It's low levels of financial commitment required to run up front. That comes primarily from low class subscription - since high levels of participation go hand-in-hand with competition, and typically, higher numbers - so the only way to "assure" low costs to run up front is to have small classes in which entrants aren't compelled to really duke it out for wins.

So the upshot is that, as long as Spec VW isn't a success, it could be cheap. If it catches on and someone gets serious about it, it will stop being cheap.

K