New "Future Classics" Series

[Tim Falce]

I emailed the series coordinator about what the regs are and got this reply.

Originally Posted by CSCC Series Co-ordinator

1.) No contact
2.) Any tyre any profile 1a or 1b in the blue book, no slicks, no cut slicks, no non approved tyres such hoosier.
3.) Silhouette as near as possible to standard.
4.) Any model of car produced in the 70's, 80's or 90's. No cars without doors, such as Caterhams, Westfields,Ariel Atoms or Sports racers.

We expect to see TR7 V8's, Jaguar XJS's, Morgans , MR2's , MX5's etc,

So according to that and what Rushy Racer said about invitations, it looks like I wont be doing it after all.

[midgetman]

>>>>>>>>>As for Midgetmans's Midget, surely that's eligible for the CSCC's "Swinging Sixties" already? Class A or B, probably.

yes yes, but is that £99 entry? Twas my point, I'm lucky enough to span three decades to race where it's cheapest. A race tart!

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by RushyRacer

Sierra's & Escorts are most definitely Saloons / Hatchbacks and would be eligible for TinTops ( if we allowed cars with Turbo's , which we don't ) so we don't have a home for them with the CSCC .
As far a list of eligible cars all the CSCC Series are just that, "Series by invitation" so we can always so No ! as well as yes when asked if a car is eligible.

Fair enough but what about GTs? You've mentioned sportscars so far other than the XJS which was homologated as a touring car.

Would a 3litre Turbo fit or are they banned from all series not just Tin Tops?

[Alan Raine]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

Hey Tim look here http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...770&styleid=28 is that not a Lister XJS I spy or was that the pace car? :-)

The Lister was racing. It's the Libre race at the PMC meeting at Silverstone in about 1985/86. In those days anything could race.

[graeme]

2.) Any tyre any profile 1a or 1b in the blue book, no slicks, no cut slicks, no non approved tyres such hoosier.
3.) Silhouette as near as possible to standard.
4.) Any model of car produced in the 70's, 80's or 90's. No cars without doors, such as Caterhams, Westfields,Ariel Atoms or Sports racers.

For "open"regs, there's some massive holes:

silhoutte as near as possible... - so it doesn't have to be standard - or anywhere near standard...

Caterham 21 have doors - but are banned? And as I've said Caterham 7s have doors of sorts.

Why are Sevens so feared - in the likes of the Eight Clubs I'm usually tussling quite happily with MGAs, TR6s and the like - the old "too fast to race"??

[Peter Mallett]

Well with the Morgans allowed in I'd suspect anyone runing anything else will be playing second fiddle. There's not much in the way of production GT or Sportscars that can stick with a plus eight! Which was my reason for asking about the turbos.

[RushyRacer]

Peter,
The best thing you can do is come and talk to one of us at Brands ( Race Admin) over this weekend and tell us what you want to race and we can then let you know if it is eligible

[Peter Mallett]

Just a liiiiiiiiiiiitle difficult considering I'm in the Arctic Circle so never mind eh?

[RushyRacer]

No, never mind !

[Tim Falce]

Not to worry, I'll come and see you...............I suppose I'd better throw my hat through the door first.

[RushyRacer]

Originally Posted by falcemob

.I suppose I'd better throw my hat through the door first.

Put some cash in it before you throw it !!

[Peter Mallett]

Richard has answered my questions and it opens up a lot of very interesting possibilities.

[R59]

When I saw "Future Classics" I started to get the shakes.

A brand new car could be considered a "Future Classics", after all, there are people who call Austin Allaggro's "Classics", so it means in translation, any car which may at some stage in it's life be considered old.

As for Formula Libre being single seaters - well no, it didn't used to be. Gerry Marshall, or should I say DTV, entered Baby Bertha in Libre events.
These days the MSA won't let single seaters (open wheels) and sports/saloons share the track.

A shame that the regs of this series excludes the "Locaterfield" type cars. Surely a limit on either engine capacity, tyre size, or weight, would have been better than saying plain "NO"?

[peenuts]

What would you call a classic? me its any thing that is no longer made so if it went out of prodution today tomorrow its a classic in my book

[andy97]

Do tell!

[NiG_21]

Originally Posted by midgetman

>>>>>>>>>As for Midgetmans's Midget, surely that's eligible for the CSCC's "Swinging Sixties" already? Class A or B, probably.

yes yes, but is that £99 entry? Twas my point, I'm lucky enough to span three decades to race where it's cheapest. A race tart!

Richard Wos tells me that the entry fee is only for this year... plus club and championship registration (another £80) - next year the prices will be the same as the swinging sixties / tin tops.