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10/24/15, 8:19 AM |
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$15,000 claim on engines?
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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 200 |
Could this work for all 410/360/wing/traditional to keep cost down and help car counts?
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10/24/15, 8:30 AM |
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Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 13 |
I think as long as the motor is in a class that allows for the modifications according to the rules and it techs properly there is no reason to have a claim out there. To have a great motor in a bigger class costs money. If someone wants to stay cheaper or race in a class where motors are even, then race in a crate motor class. But if you are racing in a class where engines cost decent money and you have competitors putting $30,000+ then you can't come up with $15k and buy them out just because you can't afford twice that. We use to have that rule in a traveling series when my son raced karts. If a kart was abnormally fast you could call a claim on the motor, but then it went to tech and got torn completely down. If it was legal, you paid for the rebuild and half the money you claimed it for and got nothing in return. I think anyone who has a solid legal motor would love to have someone claim their motor, rebuild it, and then pay them a bunch of money and not give anything up. I think it's an issue of people staying in classes they can afford and are comfortable in and not going up to classes they are just going to complain about.
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10/24/15, 9:06 AM | #3 | ||
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 257 |
Sprint cars are not a claimer class...... That is all
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10/24/15, 9:27 AM |
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Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5,955 |
Never worked in the past, even on claimers???
Honest Dad himself |
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10/24/15, 10:50 AM |
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Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 773 |
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10/24/15, 12:58 PM | #6 | ||
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Race Count This Year: 1 Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 114 |
Claim rules don't work. The UMP mods are still claimers. When was the last time anyone saw a claim made?
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10/27/15, 8:23 AM |
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10/27/15, 8:58 AM |
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Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3,869 |
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Jerry #66j stida.com / Halfmoon Resturant & Brewery / Colscotts Mobil 1 |
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10/28/15, 9:18 AM |
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Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 773 |
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Do I think there should be a claim rule on premier classes...no I don't... they haven't worked since the early-mid 80s in the beginning of the IMCA modified class, and even then a big chunk of the claims that happened were spite/screw you claims..and guys who were getting claimed started using external balancers so the next guy would shell the motor they just claimed. In crate classes or possibly even racesaver classes I think there could be some potential good come from having a claim rule, but again it isn't very likely based on how all the other claim rule classes have gone the last 20 years or so. |
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