BMod front splitter rules?
I've read through the Solo rules and GCR, but I'm still not clear on the rules for a fronts splitter on a sports racer in BMod. I'm also not 100% sure if I'm supposed to look at the GCR from the year my car was built? Or the current-year GCR.
The 2022 GCR for P2 states:
Quote:
Overhangs: Front plus rear overhangs including wings, wing mounts, wing end plates, rear diffusersand splitters (tow hooks and jack plates are excluded provided they serve no other purpose) must notexceed 80% of the wheelbase. The difference between the front and rear overhangs must not exceed15% of the wheelbase
Is this the rule I need to pay attention to?
Thanks in advance for any guidance,
Approach to rules and consolidation
I think you know this already now, but there are multiple ways of looking at clarifying rules.
Yes, you are right, as option #1, the SEB/MAC is reluctant to respond to any single member asking for clarification. Their logic (I used to hear while I was on the MAC for 9 years anyway) is that it may allow those seeking a personal private advantage in one-on-one correspondence with SEB/MAC
So, yeah, option # 2 is coming on ApexSpeed and asking those who know both the rules and intent is perhaps a more viable approach.
However, be aware, it is just as valid to go a 3d route- and this one truly has been exercised relentlessly over the years in both SCCA road racing as well as Solo:
#3 : Those who are really fighting for every advantage they can muster or who are just seeking to advance the state of the art in their class, will not ask publicly and instead just read carefully, maybe seek private opinions from those they think know more and THEN just do what they feel will survive a possible protest. Example: F440 road race constructors did this repeatedly over the years to improve those chassis over what was originally thought to be (but really wasn't) a viable set of rules regarding no suspension and no damping.
On class consolidation....
1. I think it's sensible now to let the matter drop based upon what Marshall Grice just said.
2. My own 2 centavos on Mod class consolidation:
is that if were to ever happen to my Mod class, and it made my car obsolete or forced me to start another expensive time consuming round of redevelopment
......... I would simply hang it up and put my car out front on concrete blocks as an expensive lawn ornament and go hiking instead of solo.
As I mentioned elsewhere, a truly competitive A-Mod car HAS in the past when they showed up, put about 2 seconds per course on our best B-mod car driven by Matt Ellam. I ain't ever gonna get 120 lbs. off my BM min weight chassis, and at the SAME time, build 2.5 x the BM wing area on it, and add at least 30% more allowed BM motor in an unlimited motor class to my existing BM car if it gets combined with AM.