Obviously, Stephen knows that the process is broken and only political power-plays succeed in effecting change. He seems to be venting his frustration with the system by mocking SCCA members who have given up. The SCCA system is out-of-date and incapable of effecting real change. It is unfortunate that a few lost souls keep hoping for a miracle.smsazzy wrote:Greg,problemchild wrote:Not surprisingly, the FV racers are withdrawing their entries.
My interests as a FV enthusiast and SCCA member are in direct conflict. FV needs to fix itself. SCCA needs to fix itself. FV cannot wait for SCCA to fix it as SCCA has its own restructuring to worry about. FV racers need to select a control tire, eliminate any potential rule creep and cheater potential from the rule package, then present it as a unified iniative that SCCA can support and institute. If that cannot happen in the short-term, then FV needs to find other organizations that can facilitate FV racing. This is essentially what has happened in S2000 where many more S2 cars race in vintage racing than SCCA. The important thing is that change needs to happen NOW!
It sounds like you have a plan to fix all this. That's wonderful news. You could certainly request this be changed by proposing a rule change.
Here is the site to submit a letter:
http://www.crbscca.com/index.php
From there, the letter will go to the FSR Committee, then to the CRB and out for member input. Make sure you get all the like-minded SCCA racers you can muster to write in supporting the change. If enough support is shown through the letters then the rule changes will be recommended to the board, who will very likely go along with the recommendations. It is extremely rare that something would get recommended to the board re: a specific class and not be adopted.
We need a political power play. Congrats and thanks to ChrisZ who is actually trying to do something to help. We know it is bad when we cannot even maintain a decent FV race group in New England.