I think the whole team challenge went very well. Although like others have mentioned, teams need to be chosen wisely if the team challenge is to become more popular. As much as I would want to win and beat the hell out of any team (which would not be that hard to do) that would not be that fun.

I mean, look at the space between the 1st place team (Team Ringer at 131.518) and the 2nd place team (Team BMW at 136.189). That is a pretty large margin while the rest of the field was fairly close. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel discouraged by getting beat like that, it just makes me want to try harder to win, but there does need to be somethingin place to keep the teams from getting out of countrol.

However, with the people who are involved with the team challenge, I think we can make it work so that it is fun and competitve for all.

Oh and Trip, you better get your act together or you will be ridding the pine !!!!!!!!!!

And Beno, I have the videos encoded. But I am having problems getting them to you (large files). I am still working on it. Push come to shove, I will give you a CD-ROM at the next event.

 

SCCA rules state a two driver car must be at least 5 cars apart in the smae heat. If a car gets a rerun at the end of a heat, etc. the driver must wait 5 minutes for tires to cool. BCC uses SCCA rules. If the MR2 wants to have two drivers and be numbers 68 and 73 (5 cars apart), they can. Yes the tires are warmer for the second driver but based on the results I was seeing the tire warmer was getting better times than 90% of the racers.

If you think this is an unfair advantage. Call the SEB or get your own tire warmer. In the case of the MR2 refer to the following link. I think these results speak for themselves and tires don't have the advantage being complained about in here.

http://scca.org/amateur/solo2/nation...esults/cs.html

I think it is more of an honor to have national champions come out and show us how a car should be driven and give us advice on how to improve our performance, than to snipe them about their results. Its not the first case or the 50th, Miatas, mustangs, corvettes, Hondas, Cobras, and BMWs have been doing this for years and now its an issue?

Have fun driving and think about improving yourself and the times will fall and every race will be enjoyable.

Rob

2003 Honda Civic Si (bone stock with Kuhmo Esta V700s)