We have some facts sorely mixed up here...
First, Scott Brown is a local....we have known each other since we were both kids. Scott was a factory fly boy before 93.....he won numerous stock titles before then and even after...
And the AE worlds comment was in reference to offroad....
ROAR stock and mod nats were divided not because of sandbaggers, but because the event was simply too large to house all in one weekend....they wer e turning away racers at alarming rate....so they pulled them apart...
And needless to say....the event is now COMBINED again, because of a massive drop in attendance due to touring cars and gas offroad....
And speaking of the summer sizzler....that was the true show of event having a beginner class.....I placed 2nd in Novice in 1989...the event had a E main in novice and a J main in stock....stock was super competive, with mulitple guys running stock and mod.....us beginners were in novice....though in the end, my time was good enough to be like top 30 overall....
Later EddieO