Add more impact protection.
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Originally Posted by
reidhazelton
I have a pretty high threshold for crazy, but a FF chassis (that's what a lot of FBs are) at 1000lbs or 1100lbs classed with an FA such as an 016 at 1400lbs seems sketchy to me. At those speeds, I'd want to be in something more stout than an FF chassis if an 016 nose cone is coming at me. You'd also have to speed up the FBs or slow down the FAs, and slowing them down isn't going to happen.
Racing in the same group, is a very different than racing in the same class.
I think a better option (get your flamers ready) is to slow FBs to FC speeds and merge those two classes. New Pro Mazda and F3 America’s can get lumped into FA.
Why not just add more side impact protection by taking the current side impact rules (2 layers of Kevlar) and increasing it to something that might actually help stop an offending FA. Increasing the number from two layers to a 10 layer (about 1/8" thick) Kevlar layup would not add much cost or weight, and make the class much much safer. Then we can run "STUPID FAST" as Gary puts it.
Gary is right, most places we go, the Phoenix is already faster than the FA's we run against.
The class also needs to tune up the the requirements to include a REAL impact attenuator, like the ones on every Phoenix.
I don't want to see F1000 die. I personally have spent too much of my life's energy on the class and design for it to just evaporate.