Ok so here goes my ramble
For the first time racing in FB I had to sit out a race on Sunday at Portland. Honestly I'm not a good spectator and since my flight didn't leave for several hours I thought what the heck I'll spectate for once.
While playing spectator it really hit me how cool FB really is. Inexpensive donor bike motors, cars that simply scream around the track, and routinely can pull 3 g's in cornering. Racers building their own cars adding their take on aero rules, suspension geometry etc. just seems like the purest form of racing to me. See the early days of Formula Atlantic circa late 70's.
It's no secret an FB in the right hands is damn fast and I'll argue at most tracks can finish ahead of most P1 and Formula Atlantic cars.
So now the SCCA is looking very closely at class participation for 2019 Runoffs qualification and of course beyond that. I understand there is limited time at the RO's fitting all those classes into a small time window. It looks to me like they're moving the goal post so they can bring in newer classes and kill off others.
If there's still any of you FB drivers that still care about the health of this class I recommend you get informed about the SCCA class participation rules. Running regionals does not help our case at all which is opposite of the alternate path to the RO's we were pitched 3 years ago. I frankly never bought into that, I'm old school and remember when you actually had to qualify for the RO's.
So give me your thoughts.