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Originally Posted by Al Weyman
The question I want to ask is about this H pattern gearbox thing, I am confused, are we talking sequential gearshifts or merely changing the pattern from the standard configuration of the more or less conventonal gearchange, i.e. if you stuck a dog leg 1st Group A gearbox in your Seirra for example that normally had a T5 conventional pattern box then you go up a class or two?
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just to clarify things for you Al,
the whole ethos of the championship is that its a clubman championship, most of the cars in it are relatively low budget home built cars, as you know in motorsport the more money and development you put into a car the faster you will go,
it used to be that a non origonal cylinder head, gearbox or engine automatically put a car in class A, this was relaxed because it was too stiff a penalty,
what we now do is apply a 50% multiplication factor to an engines capacity if any of the above are non origonal, how many classes a car moves up depends on a cars engine capacity, by way of example i will give bill richards car with its non production 16v KAD cylinder head it the car, at 1445cc the multiplier makes it 2167cc so it jumped form an upto 1600cc class two classes to an over 2000cc, now if bill engine were infact 1320cc it would of only moved up one class, had it been 1000cc it wouldnt of moved up any classes at all. the same applies to joss's engine.
im sure you Al as a clubman racer will see we are trying to maintain a balence between cost and performance.
you yourself have written here many times that before that different cars suit different championships, you read the rules and decide where to race, we as a club are very pro active if someone someone doesnt fit on a technical basis we try to fix that.
i do sympthasise with joss that in the current structure out right wins are a tall order, on the other hand, even if we could suddenly move him down a class which we cant because the rules are set with the MSA, what do you think the reaction of the class below, would be if they were suddenly rendered uncompetitive? we have seen it before it looses us drivers, we always have and always will be most supportive of regular drivers that have have a history of regulary supporting us as a club