MX-5 Club of NSW - NSW Supersprint Rd 2 - Sunday 14th May 2017

StillIC · Postby **StillIC** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 9:26 am

Guran wrote:It's a sad demonstration of chequebook motorsport and definitely not in the spirit of what Type 1 is meant to be about.

Do I have another proponent for self policing value/budget motorsport classes??

Nuddy · Postby **Nuddy** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:32 am

StillIC wrote:
Guran wrote:It's a sad demonstration of chequebook motorsport and definitely not in the spirit of what Type 1 is meant to be about.

Do I have another proponent for self policing value/budget motorsport classes??

More info on this please.

StillIC · Postby **StillIC** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 9:15 pm

Nuddy wrote:More info on this please.

Well, I should find the thread where I mentioned this concept. But in short i would like to see a dollar value based motorsport class system.

Problem (IMHO): There are hundreds of motorsports classes in Australia, and in nearly all cases in all classes the biggest cheque book wins. We can't all afford to be competitive when this is the case, thus providing a certain level of disillusion for many competitors and an uneven playing field.

Solution I would like to see trialed: A system where the classes are based on the owner's applied value of the vehicle. So, there might be a $5000 class, a $10k, a $20k or whatever breakdown is deemed about right.

How would that work I hear you ask. Couldn't I just buy a Lotus Exige and enter it in the $10,000 class? Yes you could. And at the end of the first event your fellow competitors have the option of buying your car for $10,000 and if you don't sell it you are out of running for the competition. So as a competitor you would need to enter your car in a class where you are willing to sell it at the value of the class you are in. Spend more on your car to make it faster, and risk losing it to a fellow competitor. Of course, if they race it again then you have the chance of buying it back (if you still want it after they may have de-modified it). No others rules to be broken, chances for cheating are slim if any, and scrutineering is just for safety.

I don't propose this as a replacement for all existing classes, more as a parallel system until it proved popular enough to stand alone, if ever. But it needs a critical mass to start off with, and probably at a lowish value, maybe $5000.

Nuddy · Postby **Nuddy** » Fri May 12, 2017 6:38 pm

It's this Sunday!
Grid sheets received.
14 cars/group.
Group 3 is all MX-5s with times from 1:09.1 to 1:12.8
Group 5 is 1 Clubman (1:13.5) and 12 MX-5s with times from 1:13.2 to 1:21.6 and me with the newly acquired NC. They've estimated my time at 1:22.0 based on pb with the NB8a of 1:23.028

Nuddy · Postby **Nuddy** » Sun May 14, 2017 10:56 pm

Great day at Wakefield. Efficiently run by MX-5 club of NSW.
No serious incidents. I don't think anyone damaged their cars.
Results are on Natsoft.
My firzt session i did 1:24
Later in the day I got down to 1:18.9
Club track day tomorrow.

greenMachine · Postby **greenMachine** » Mon May 15, 2017 11:17 pm

Good result for the Club, we have moved from being just a few points down in 2nd place, to around 100 points ahead in 1st place. Some confusion around one of our registrants scoring points while competing in Bathurst :shock:

, so the advice registrants got this morning is now a little optimistic sadly!

Good work from our Class winners - Tony, Gus, Phil, David, Scott and Bryan, in fact good work from all 23 members who turned up to enjoy a good Goulburn day.

I thought we would do better at Wakefield than Rd1, but it looks like we are 20 or so shy of our Rd1 total - but ARDC are 160 down on Rd1!!

Sadly I had some alternator gremlins and left early, hopefully easily fixed - cue a trip back to WP next week to do a quick test before Rd3. It was pity, as my last timed lap was my best, just a few tenths off a PB - even without the aero, and on old tyres - colour me very happy!!

:mrgreen:

david_syd_au · Postby **david_syd_au** » Tue May 16, 2017 4:15 pm

greenMachine wrote:Some confusion around one of our registrants scoring points while competing in Bathurst

One of the non-registrant entrants with a 91x number somehow got recorded in the timing results as car 91, and hence his times got attributed to the MX-5 Club driver with that number in the championship.
Bob Welsh (the supersprint championship registrar) is aware of the issue and will be correcting the results.