What's the answer?

[Allan]

Your expressed concern Ray, is one that many of us share. To add to the points you make is the value of some of these vehicles and the increasing cost of repairing even minor damage, which I am sure keeps many under cover in there sheds.

[bill hollingsworth]

"Racing" for historic cars presents many issues, damage but one of them. What attracts me to historic racing is the variety of cars. The actual racing can easily be a double edged sword where if you want to win particular cars start to predominate reducing variety. Goodwood is a great example where they want a true representation of racing in the past and nobble the quicker cars as was the case with the Camaros that this year had to run factory cast headers. Also in the quest to win the cars begin to lose their historical character both in appearance with umpteen degrees of negative camber at the front and grippy tyres and trick shock absorbers that reduce the interesting cornering angles of the past. The only exciting real historic racing I have seen has been has been on very short tracks, the longer tracks turn races into processions. Race meetings should be car shows with a theme or themes to attract particular car clubs.