Historic Sport Sedans

[Kiwiboss]

I believe the entries are half down from last year but the ticket sales to the public are double for the same period!! The Festival organizers are doing there best to promote this as a more "true" historic meeting a bit like Goodwood, Monterey, etc but the problem here is in NZ is we've had 30 plus years of no direction of proper classic car racing, the Aussies beat us to this back in the 80's along with the rest of the world!! so what happens is why would you race your "proper" Historic/Classic Escort(with history) against one with a home made YB all aluminum 325HP modern engine with computer management system? our country is full of mofidite hotrods so one would wait and see what the grids are first!! and i don't now about you guys but this year has been a tuff one financially so for most its just sit on your hands until the last minute!!

And the lack of understanding on this forum of make, models, etc and how certain cars are categorized doesn't help as well, the early 70's Porsche's(google it) were a 2 door 4 seater car as sold by the manufacture and hence considered a saloon car, this is WHY they got raced with the saloons here and overseas back in the day(watch some old youtube footage) once they removed the rear seat they became a "Sports Car" i've just had this very discussion over 240Z Datsuns as they are a 2 door 2 seater(Sportscar) where as the 260's and up are 2 door 4 seater(Saloon car) can you guys see were this is going or am i the only one!!

This "Sports Sedan" class has had a major push by a few good people to get these cars out and there owners along for this event, and to continue it!! and yes it will be a premier attraction but the easiest way to really piss the owners off and never see then again is to allow super-fast "modern" modified mofidite home made NASCAR powered vehicles in that group that will lap Hampton considerably quicker just to satisfy a few who want to see a 40 plus car grid, that to me is NOT historic/Classic car racing, Now i know some will say you need numbers to pay the bills, well i say just let the organizers worry about that as its not our concern!!

Dale M