Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chip Gribben <futurev@...>
> Date: November 10, 2006 4:06:07 AM EST
> To: EV Discussion List <ev@...>
> Subject: Re: Multiple NEDRA Records and Production Class
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> Shawn, Dennis, John and Steve
>
> Thanks for letting us know about the NEDRA Records and Production
> Class issues.
>
> I have summarized the concerns and sent them to the NEDRA Board
> with my proposed revisions to correct the typos on the website. As
> webmaster, I will put up the changes as soon as the Board Members
> (Brian, Father Time, Roderick and Ken Koch) are fully aware of the
> concern and approve the corrections.
>
> But in the meantime, I will discuss the typos in the site. And this
> will help clear up Dennis' concern about the SC and PS class and
> Steve's concern about the Production Class.
>
> STREET CONVERSION AND PRO STREET CONVERSION
>
> First typo and Dennis' concern: John Wayland's car is actually in
> the "Pro-Street" class NOT the "Street Conversion" class. On the
> website his record is incorrectly shown as "SC/A3" and it should be
> "PS/A3". John and I have discussed the issue this evening.
>
> I have made the change in Dreamweaver on my Mac, but like I said, I
> need to make sure the NEDRA Board is fully aware of it before I
> post it up. NEDRA President, Brian Hall, is responsible for the
> Records page and he needs to be notified first before I post up the
> change.
>
> Since John's car is in the Pro-Street class this should allay
> Dennis concerns about his project. From what he has mentioned so
> far I believe his truck is also in the Pro-Street class since he
> has a Ford 9-inch rear but we will have to know the full details
> about the specs first. We welcome Dennis' new truck to race in 2007.
>
> Second typo: In the "Description of Classes and Voltage Divisions"
> table below the records we have "SP" for ProStreet and this should
> be "PS". "SP" is actually for Street Production. That's my bad.
>
> Third typo: My bad again. In the Class and Voltage table below the
> Record Holders - in Voltage Division, A2 should be "301 to 348"
> instead of "300 to 348". It is correct on the "Class Rules" page.
>
> PRODUCTION CLASS
>
> Which brings us to Steve's concern about the Production Class, we
> do in fact have a class for OEM EVs and that is the "Street
> Production" class. There are 6 NEDRA records in this class. But at
> this time we have not yet written a detailed description of this
> class like we have done for the "Street Classes". This class is for
> production EVs like the Sparrow, the EV1 and RAV-4 EV.
>
> We also have classes for Dragsters (DR), Motorcycles (MT) and (HS)
> High School vehicles, but NEDRA still needs to write up detailed
> descriptions for these classes.
>
> We wrote up the "Street Class" descriptions first since this has
> accounted for most of the questions concerning the technical issues
> of these vehicles. It took us three months to write that up and get
> the technical details ironed out.
>
> Since we put up the new "Street Classes" NEDRA was in the process
> of recruiting a new Technical Director. Now that Ken Koch from KTA
> Services is on-board as Technical Director and as soon as he has
> finished some other priorities he will help write up the new class
> descriptions for the Street Production, Dragster, Motorcycle and
> High School Classes.
>
> These should be ready by the 2007 racing season.
>
> So please bear with us. Like I said as soon as the NEDRA Board
> discusses these latest concerns we will update the site ASAP. I
> made the changes but have not put them up on the server until the
> other Board members know and approve. It can't be done now because
> it's 4:00 am my time and the Board will probably not get to my
> email until the weekend.
>
> VEHICLES TAKING MULTIPLE RECORDS
>
> In response to Shawn's concern NEDRA has in place a rule concerning
> this issue which is at the bottom of the Record Holder's page
>
> Briefly what this says is that you can only have one record per
> day. This prevents racers from changing pack voltages in any single
> event.
>
> "If you wish to submit a new record holder time, the rules are as
> follows:
>
> * You (the owner of the vehicle) MUST be a member of NEDRA at the
> time the record is set.
> * Send two time slips (the times must be within 1% of each other)
> from runs made on the same day at any NHRA sanctioned track or a
> NEDRA sanctioned event, information about the track, track contact,
> event date, vehicle class and voltage division, vehicle specs,
> driver and owner as well as a photo of the vehicle to . . ."
>
> Since racers are allowed to get records on an approved NHRA track
> there isn't anything we can do to prevent them from racing one
> weekend and getting a record then the next weekend changing the
> battery pack to a different voltage and to get another record. As
> long as they don't do it in the same day that is fine.
>
> Once we have more cars and bikes racing this should thin out the
> field. But since we have so few vehicles actively racing today this
> is going to be an issue.
>
> I would suggest people build and race cars and bikes. Take a look
> at the Records page and build a vehicle you feel can compete in a
> particular class. We would love to see more vehicles on the Records
> Page.
>
> Hopefully this should clear some issues up.
>
> Chip Gribben
> NEDRA Webmaster
> http://www.nedra.com
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