Quote Originally Posted by RS Spyder
I've just had a marathon session on another forum concerning the ACO's alterations to the rules for 2007.
As far as I am concerned, this new contrived racing (not allowing the smaller prototype classes to even try for overall wins) is mind boggling.(at least to mine)
If you limit classes from competing against eachother, then you cannot have overall winners. "Overall" implies winning against all. If you are limited to competeing in your class, then the best you can acheive is a Class win. Even if you are in the top class! If , in theory, you are not really competing with any other class, then you cant be an "overall" winner.
I have no problem with a split in the Prototype classes, as long as they only reflect different philosophies (ie. big engined, heavier cars in one class and smaller engined, lighter cars in another) to obtaining the same goal; an Overall win!!
I was stunned to discover that most peolple on the other forum thought this to be outrageous!
If I outrage anyone on this forum, please accept my apologies in anticipation.
The problem is, it seems, most people have been indoctirnated into some form of socialist mind think that makes genuine competition,where racing proves who has the biggest, fastest, baddest on the road anti-social, or vulgar.

Asinine rules that make developement of a better design, pointless, as rules will reduce it to the level that the little Mussolinis running the show, want it to be at. Dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.
There was a time when a new hot shoe would get into some **** box, and work with it, till it went faster than it had ever gone before.
Was that "fair" ?
Hell no, that was racing.
People weren't handed a competitive edge, they earned one.

The worst point of all, the more rules there are controlling a class, the more it will cost to run up front, WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
Most factories see it as a waste of time, producing a product that performs far below capabilities, and most privateers are neither stupid enough or rich enough to waste money there.

In the US, unless the IMSA dumps the ACO connection, I doubt it will survine too much longer.
Bob