Originally Posted by
terry.sc
It's hard to put forward an argument to change rules to allow any particular car because the manufacturer didn't design it to be race legal in the first place. If it's not competitive the rules will have been changed for no reason as everyone will still run their old cars, if the new car is better then everyone ends up running the new car instead of what we are running now and you are still running in a class with very few types of car being used.
I agree with most of what you wrote but rules get bend all the time. UF1 bend the rules to include the FGX. The rules for f1 was first 200mm but was changed in areas of the world for 180mm because tamiya came out with a 180mm car. The 200mm old rules didn't fit the new car. Also because of a perceived advantage that the old car still had over the new car so the old rules were changed. Now they say the 200mm doesn't fit the rules...sure because they changed the original rules in the first place.
I am not trying to get into a discussion, just saying that rules get bend every year little by little to fit into the needs of what people want at the time and place.