Bob Vehring
New member
Yesterday I had a long talk with Steve, actually, both Steves, Baker ask me what it would take to get me back interested in doing these races. Of course there are several answers, the one pertaining to this is simple. Get the program back to one engine platform, just like it was for all those years when Animal was consistently the largest class in Road Racing. History shows it works.
Which engine that is doesn't really matter to me, if its Pro Gas, I'm ok with that, they all build basically the same, just get everyone going in the same direction, not five different ones.
I admit, I really wasn't following this until someone called and asked me to read it and comment. Now after thinking about it for a day, the questions I have really aren't about the engine itself ,but more about how did this get to this point. If you were around during the days back then, it took a full year of talking it out, right here, then a big push to get Limited accepted as a class in RR'ing. Cloan and I believe LO both had to go through a 1 year period of being a Local option only class, yet the combining of alky and gas class Animals suddenly just appears in a press release without any real discussion, going through the Comp committee, any local option process and it seems from here, I can't really find anyone that really proposed the idea.
WKA is a member owned org, with a decades old process in place that things like this are suppose to go through, other classes or changes have had to go through that process. Until someone official answers those questions, I guess it makes me question the whole deal even more.
How good or bad any series is, is directly related to the political forces driving it, this just plain doesn't look good.
Which engine that is doesn't really matter to me, if its Pro Gas, I'm ok with that, they all build basically the same, just get everyone going in the same direction, not five different ones.
I admit, I really wasn't following this until someone called and asked me to read it and comment. Now after thinking about it for a day, the questions I have really aren't about the engine itself ,but more about how did this get to this point. If you were around during the days back then, it took a full year of talking it out, right here, then a big push to get Limited accepted as a class in RR'ing. Cloan and I believe LO both had to go through a 1 year period of being a Local option only class, yet the combining of alky and gas class Animals suddenly just appears in a press release without any real discussion, going through the Comp committee, any local option process and it seems from here, I can't really find anyone that really proposed the idea.
WKA is a member owned org, with a decades old process in place that things like this are suppose to go through, other classes or changes have had to go through that process. Until someone official answers those questions, I guess it makes me question the whole deal even more.
How good or bad any series is, is directly related to the political forces driving it, this just plain doesn't look good.