Rules Are Made To Be Changed
By Rob Elting
07/03/2002

I know it all sounds to be rhetorical, rules are made to be changed, but it seems that it has become the norm for some of the local tracks in Florida. I won't get into pointing fingers, so I'll keep general. The rules in local competition are developed to keep classes consistent. Consistent in the car counts, but most of all, consistent in equality or fairness. It has been brought to my attention that some tracks are taking a street stock class and trying to make late models out of their cars when the street stock guys are giving every dime that they have to compete with the present rules. Some of them have reached the top in their class. When you make a rule change such as, this year we are going to let the street stock guys have fiberglass bodies. It sounds to me like you are trying to make two classes into one class. I say, if you are going to have a street stock or super stock, bodies should be stock steel bodies. If you are building a sportsman's class, then have a sportsman class with fiberglass bodies on them. The racer that I talked to about this problem has definitely spent his last dime to prepare a super stock race car with a steel body that, at his racetrack will put him at a disadvantage.

My answer to the problem is that if a track wants to make rules as such to take a steel body class and put fiberglass bodies on them, there should be substantial concessions for the guy with the stock body on his car in a stock class (i.e.. weight, carburetors, etc.).

So my Bottomline for today is....... All you local racetrack promoters and owners remember, your racetrack runs on your lower class car counts, so if you want to have a successful local racing venue, don't mess with the itinerary.

Till next time,

Bonehead       07/03/02

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