Originally Posted by
JeffYoung
I think the problem is just the obviousness of some of it that is clearly tolerated or ignored. Having been to Daytona all of twice, it's not fair of me to make any generalizations, but both times my perception was:
1. The cars running up front in the classes I care about/race in or with (ITR, S and A) were legal;
2. But some of the mid packers had some pretty obvious cheats that folks didn't seem to mind: lexan windows with holes, missing windshield wipers and shaved door handles for aero, a carbon fiber trunk decklid, a guy claiming to run a mid 2000s 911 in ITR, and so on.
I get why fixing the obvious stuff isn't really a priority since they do not appear to be front running cars, but at hte same time the obviuos gives that appearance that things aren't quite right down thataway, when in fact they mostly are (especiall at the front of the field).
The guy in the Porsche with the lexan ran maybe 6-7 race weekends over two years down here, and has since moved on precisely because he didn't fit. He got a lot of attention on the forum here as being representative of the culture of Florida IT racing when he really wasn't one of us. He just didn't understand what IT was all about. One of those guys who builds a car the way he wants and only then tried to find a place to race it. He was actually a nice guy, just naive.
Chris Carey
Central Florida Region
ITS/Vintage Datsun 240Z
Favorite tool to remove undercoating---- A curb!
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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