[SIZE=1]A. Definition
A formula for purpose built, open-wheel, open cockpit racing cars. F1000 allows converted
Formula Continental, Formula 2000, Formula Ford, and purpose-built motorcycle-powered tube
frame chassis. Re-homologation as an F1000 is required for all converted cars.
How much do you believe in that definition? How do you see that the rules as proposed will assure that any of the converted cars will remain even vaguely competitive?
I for one would like to produce a F1000 that is converted from my FC and have it be as competitive as my FF and FC currently are. I believe in that definition. As a business model, building a basic car that can meet the needs of several classes allows me to offer that product at the lowest possible cost.
An ugly fact of the race car business is that the cars are sold at or near cost. No profit. Why, because it is the parts and service business that is profitable. We only make money when people race and consume parts.
I think that there are way more people who want to race than there are people who can build what they want to race. I suspect you are in that group. Like it or not, I think we (the collective manufacturers) are stuck with each other (you the reluctant, abused and disrespected cutomer). I also like to delude myself into believing that I serve my customers well. Who else in FF and FC has been able to get his customers on the podium at the runoffs almost every year for a dozen years with the same cars or spend time helping people with 30 year old cars go faster?
I have been in the business of streaching the rules for a lot of years, probably as many or more than you have been racing. I look at the F1000 rules and see that my present product is junk and so is every thing on the ground. I see all new cars that will be exploring new chassis construction ideas, new aerodynamics that are totally unique to F1000. Remember, no one else in the world is doing any thing like this. If that is what you want, recent DSR history replayed in F1000, then that is what you will get with these rules.
I am trying to get the rules back to what you, the designers, said you wanted. Which is an FC car appropriately modified to use a motor cycle engine. Or have I totally missed something?
What you are calling "shear arrogance" might be some insignificant insight coming from experience.
Like it or not you have involved the manufacturers in this class as our cars are converted. As it stands, I'm not comfortable with most of my cars in this class.
Tell me what your vision of F1000 is. Maybe I am too old and senile to understand what you guys have given us. If so I appologize. Or maybe you were only fooling when you added the phrase "and purpose-built motorcycle-powered tube frame chassis".
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