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Originally Posted by MattR
It will always be that way...There are actually two arguements over "fairness" right now...And we've beat this to death on this board many times.
#1 Street tire is unfair. Many race-tire runners feel it's not fair that they get beat in their class by cars with a street tire modifier. They also feel the street tire index if unfair for race tire participants. Yes a Corvette on race tires is killing everyone. Also, as the first Sti to run stickies full time, I can honestly say that I believe there is NO advantage to the street tire cars...Race tire cars ARE getting a fair deal with the Street Tire pax. The problem is, some Reno region drivers don't have fuly prepped cars and/or the drivers are not fast enough.
#2 Altitude index. Basically, higher horsepower cars have a significant advantage over lower power cars at this altitude. There is a movement to adopt a seperate Pax-liek scoring program that awards lower power and brings down highewr power cars. Never mind that fact that a Miata in CSP from Sac whooped up on everyone a few events back.
As Dean, Myself, and others have said...SHUT UP and DRIVE FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the answer
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Pax is pax is pax, and if we don't like it, we don't have to play here.
I'm not convinced about #1; as an experiment I could get a better idea by switching to RE01R's, but that takes away from focusing on race tires, which I need to do to be as competitive as possible at national events. That said - I am very tempted to switch to Mark's car and run STU, yokohamas ftw.
With respect to the High Altitude Pax discussion, I was initially doubtful that anyone could come up with something that might be fair. But to be fair to this concept, it's not just about bringing high horsepower cars down to low horsepower car performance levels, I saw that there is some real math behind the concept -- that there is a known percentage of performance loss based on altitude. Just wish we had the ability to test all of this out the right way, but I don't see that we ever will.