Originally Posted by
Dennis Valet
Perhaps I'm incorrect, but I thought the entire point of choosing Motorcycle engines for this class was that you could pull an engine off the shelf or junkyard, throw it in the car and have a very powerful and reliable engine for a reasonable price. I.e. it discouraged "engine development" and instead chose to use stock readily available cheap engines that would last a competitor a long time, reducing the high cost of engines...rebuilds, upgrading, etc.
It seems more and more that the direction of this class is DSR, where people are throwing down enormous sums of money to see minute gains. When I initially saw this class proposal and what it was offering, I was excited. Cheap cars (tube frame) with cheap readily available bike engines to make a class faster than all the available options except formula atlantic. I thought the class was supposed to learn from the mistakes of DSR to make a genuinely fun, fast and cheap class.
I guess those with bottomless pockets don't see the point of all that, but then again it seems more and more that SCCA racing is moving away from the individual pulling a 22 foot behind his pickup truck....and yet everyone on here will wonder why spec miata is so popular and why the SCCA is throwing nearly all its chips behind that class.