No, I am not really saying that, just trying to give some history of
why we required it. The politics has a long story, but F125 was not
allowed in San Diego from a group that was vehemently opposed and
after some personal bloodshed (I never want to go through that
again), it was allowed, but on a probation period and NO junior karts
ever... and karts can't take Top Time of Day. Just some very small
minded petty idiots really. But you have to deal with them.

I would think the impact of karts as far as annoyance at one event,
should not be a big issue. The airbox rule was for more the every
event thing. In fact, my personal philosophy is that they should back
off and relax the sound rules during the Tour, doing so does not hurt
the intent of the sound rule... and we as a region don't follow the
sound contract anyway when it is not convenient (must be below 87db
before 11:00am), but then a round contract without a distance to
measure from, is pretty meaningless right?

Back to the topic, people can do whatever they want. The rules were
created in San Diego as a gentleman's agreement to help allow F125 to
run. I think at this point, though there is animosity still, and
common sense says to try to not make a situation worse, I am done
with worrying about those people. There should be no special reason
at this point, to have an arbitrary rule for karts that other
competitors do not have to follow.

If you pass 93db at 50ft, you pass.

Best

Randy Chase
(unfortunately now not sure I can get back from Sebring and World
Challenge/ALMS/IMSA support and still run in the tour. :( )



>Hi Randy,
>
>So I guess you're saying that have to run a box at the SD tour. I
>have not heard this before, but when I ran at SD last time it was in
>a different class. Sounds like there are some politics surrounding
>F125 down there and thats too bad.


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