Some good dialogue here.
I can follow Lowbelly's thinking and would contribute some thoughts, no conclusions here, but ideas for a simple, clear and fair strata of awards.
For background, like many here, I have raced in many sanctioned events and been subject to class fiddling (that is the art of reading around the regs to gain a perfomance advantage by adding mods that allow you to race in a category where your vehicle can gain a perfomance advantage over the rest of the class), and been guilty of it myself
, and I have even been regulated out of a large international event because I tried to performance mod a vehicle to the class spec limit, only to have the spec change the following year. So I do get it.
The moment you stratify by vehicle 'type' in a ICV you are opening the veritable pandora's box. There is no such thing as a manufacturers standard.
Engine size, Induction, Wheel size and Tyre type are the broad strokes. Then there a million 'what if's' that that can nullify the above.
I really like the idea of a competition that makes the above possible categories null and void.
- Regularity does that very well
I also recognise that many of us have set about to purposly build performance monsters that will pass anything but a petrol pump
I know I did
So a reward for the performance/handling builder is also very attractive to a large field.
Limiting awards to one category or the other without pre-selection, allows more winners and promotes a different level of focus in the regularity event. then providing for a pure handling event for well set up and driven cars. Add in a few 'Cobraesque' awards; Best Sound, Best Off, Peers Choice etc rounds out the awards groups.
So, my vote would be;
Speed and Regularity
in both
Track and Motorkhana
Cameron