Help me with Auto-x

[ozmdd]

If a car dominates a class, IMHO, it is mis-classed. The whole point of classing is to create a level playing field. When one car seems to beat all others (as with the Cooper S in G-stock), its probably needs a bump. Of course, there are situations where there is a "preferred" car, but that's not the same. (Ex; the 89 Civic Si in ST is preferred, but others are competitive).

Back to the original thread, your midpipe puts you in FSP, as others have mentioned. If its an SCCA autoX, they probably want you to delcare what you've got to others in your class. As some have said, you can show-up and ask if you can be given an exception to run in ST or STX, but you'd be wise to run as a Novice, which means you will simply run against all novices (some competition) and your results will be indexed according to your appropriate class. This is more fun than running in FSP alone or against much better-prepared cars and seasoned drivers, and will give you a better idea of how you drive against similar experience-levels.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by ozmdd

If a car dominates a class, IMHO, it is mis-classed. The whole point of classing is to create a level playing field. When one car seems to beat all others (as with the Cooper S in G-stock), its probably needs a bump. Of course, there are situations where there is a "preferred" car, but that's not the same. (Ex; the 89 Civic Si in ST is preferred, but others are competitive).

The Cooper S was moved to DS for 2010.

What other cars are competitive in ST? At the 2009 Solo Natls every trophy (all 11) in ST went to the Civic Si - on top of that I believe that every one of them was a 1989. The top non-Civic in ST was in 31st place, a Celica. That is domination.

edit: my bad, 9th was a 1990 and 11th was a 1991, just the rest of them were 1989. lol

The ST winning Civic also picked up 3rd in STX.