January 2025 Fastrack

Peter Olivola said:
Could you be a bit more specific?
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FProd Hondas get yet another FPR restriction from 55mm down to 51mm (FP Miata won and Miatas were 9 of the top 10 at the '24 Runoffs).

PAC seems to be keying on the one guy that has been building, developing, and driving the same car for over 20 years.

(Yet they're worried about a mid-engine car with 75-yr-old-tech air-cooled VW Bus engine... <shrug>)
 
Regarding FProd FPR restriction for the Acuras/Hondas

14% reduction sure does sound excessive.

55 mm down to 51 mm is a 14.1% reduction in area. That is a pile of BS right there !


The Miatas handle much better than the Integras . Go look at the cornering speed at the kink or the carousel at RA. Several miles an hour faster. I'll bet they are faster in every corner.
Which means – go to almost any other track and the Mazdas will have the advantage. Which is perfect because this club loves Mazda.


But, hey, base it all on this one track because it's the Runoffs.
As we know only the Runoffs matter. Leading to reducing/merging classes because of what is in reality a Runoff's scheduling issue.
As a result we get this GTL into FP debacle (among many other disenfranchised racers)

Heads up to ALL the FP cars.
The top GTLs are going to run away for the win in 2025.
 
tschreyer said:
3 of the top 4 Honda's didn't finish, Stacked the front end of the field in qually, and held the fastest race lap.... just saying that it's not out of the blue...
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...thus were not checked in impound for compliance...which is not out of the blue...

I presume someone on the PAC did that prior to making this change...?
 
I am certainly glad to see agreement to my dissatisfaction and Greg you hit the nail squarely on the head.
 
I totally agree with you Sterling and personally find the new way of making unilateral decisions with a hand full of people not very user friendly shall we say.
 
thus were not checked in impound for compliance...which is not out of the blue...

I presume someone on the PAC did that prior to making this change...?

Do you think?
 
tschreyer said:
I don't understand what you're suggesting.
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If I show up in a different car...let's say, a Borgward...and I totally dominated the field, a second faster than everyone else and breaking the track record..but I pull in on teh second to last lap due to a mechanical failure and go to my paddock, load up, and go home...should my car be BOP'd the following season?

After all, I qually'd on the pole and held the fastest race lap.
 
Greg Amy said:
If I show up in a different car...let's say, a Borgward...and I totally dominated the field, a second faster than everyone else and breaking the track record..but I pull in on teh second to last lap due to a mechanical failure and go to my paddock, load up, and go home...should my car be BOP'd the following season?

After all, I qually'd on the pole and held the fastest race lap.
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So the configuration showed it's capability across multiple entrants doing everything else you suggest and just because three of the four broke or crashed they should get a mulligan?

Yes. It should be BOP'd.

If your angle is the subset of Runoffs and HST entrants representing the whole of one make's entrants and thus the data collection (and possibly being non-compliant) then what would you propose? Where else should the spec lines be evaluated?
 
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