Official Gridlife Roadster Modified Thread
#81
Speed costs money no matter what. I agree with where you are coming from to that point, but I don't feel many Gridlife attendees are going to go to the lengths that competitive spec Miata racers do to be competitive. Not only is that level of nit-picking a car time consuming, but its expensive for very small incremental performance benefit. Finding a way to separate the modest $10-15k budget builds that many people have from the wilder $30k+ builds is the trick and the current rule set doesn't do a good job of separating them. Emilio's recommendation on classing does a better job of differentiating between the mild and wild budgets IMO, and Ryan more elegantly stated the point I was making. Poscat's all around for those statements.
#89
eg: you don't see Ryan complaining that Hypermiata was down factors of magnitude of power against his competitors at COTA. Much more exciting to compete with a common rulebook against other makes and models and win or lose like men. I don't see the purpose of RM classing as written other than handing out more participation trophies specifically to the Miata crowd. Whats next? S2000 specific classing? Civic specific classing? No... Stahhpppp..
#90
eg: you don't see Ryan complaining that Hypermiata was down factors of magnitude of power against his competitors at COTA. Much more exciting to compete with a common rulebook against other makes and models and win or lose like men. I don't see the purpose of RM classing as written other than handing out more participation trophies specifically to the Miata crowd. Whats next? S2000 specific classing? Civic specific classing? No... Stahhpppp..
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