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Old 01-12-2011, 04:00 AM
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racers are indeed a curious lot. We want rules and we want a limited class(es) that set up the guidelines for maintaining a level playing field. Ideally there would be regulations in place that are designed to keep the cars "relatively equal". But then everybody (racers and manufacturers alike) invests time and money looking for ways to make their own car "more equal" than everybody elses. As soon as that happens (and it always does), everybody gets upset about it. By contrast, people who run open mod never complain. They just do the best they can to exploit whatever equipment that they can obtain and they do their talking and their competition on the track. My point is this.........if you don't want to run in a very restrictive class where there's no opportunity to find a "more equal than the others" performance advantage, why don't you just run mod? In racing as it is in life, there are times when it's just not possible to have cake and also to eat cake.
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