[openwheel44]

First........I agree.......no cockpit adjustable anything. Give it your best shot and drive the friggin' car. You can have adjustable shocks to eliminate so many in the trailer but adjust them before you go out on the track.

Secondly......Someone mentioned the light guys want lighter weight rules and the heavier guys want heavier weight rules. All I can say to that is I weigh 215#. I run a "specific built" Lightning Sprint. Not a midget conversion. I sincerely think it is absolutely absurd that a person of my weight has to add roughly 50# to my car to make that 970# rule or roughly 80# to make the discussed 1000# rule. According to the produced unbaised dyno pull with the R-1 the gas unit has about the same hp/torque at the "workable" rpms. I truly think it's time for the those stating alky is an unfair advantage to produce some actual unbaised facts stating their case. Incidently, we had our rules meeting the other day and if I am not mistaken, our race director stated through out the year the gas and alky cars crossing the scales averaged 930-935#. Both fuels won features and placed in the top 5 pretty equally. So it seems the old 925# rule still works for us. I would like to know what happened with some of these other groups that makes them think that alky is "satan's work" and it will evidently destroy our class?

I will type what everyone is thinking.........."Hey nemrod, don't race if you don't like the rules." Yep......I could easily do that and simply race in my little safe haven here and be as happy as a clam. I just see this fuel/weight issue travelling like a cancer. I have yet to see anyone present any unbaised documentation justifying this alky penalty crusade. The main thing........I don't want it to contaminate the whole Lightning Sprint community. I want to have the option to actually go to some of the pre and post season "special" races and not have to figure out a way to bolt boat loads of unsafe weight on my car. I want us to get the maximum out of our cars and reflect the speeds these cars are capable off so we can maximize the appeal. Not weight them down, make them unsafe and obviously slower. Anyway........I truly think "special" races with inflated purses are the next step to promote and grow this class. This doesn't have to effect "local racing" but something needs to be done to standardize the "National or special" races.