NEW Motorsport NZ Historic Commission Strategic Plan(Please be sensible with replies)

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This is the new Motorsport NZ Historic Commission Strategic plan endorsed by the MSNZ board which has just been made public.

In recent times it has come to the attention of a number of racers and people alike that historic values in New Zealand motor racing need protecting. The ever increasing availability of modern technology is slowly turning our old racing car fleet into modernised club cars, this is more prevalent in closed bodied saloon and sports cars.

For the last 20 plus years there has been a good set of regulations under Appendix 6 – Historic and Classic, Group 1, 2 and 3 but these are not being properly enforced, protected or promoted by either the H&C Commission, or event organisers. This lack of control understandably has driven some competitors away.

The time has come for all of us to stand up and take notice. There is a need to retain the integrity of our old Classic and Historic fleet rather than have them turn into club cars in the quest for more speed.

The H&C Commission also needs to make sure that event organisers running meetings under the guise of “Classic and Historic” should be doing so to the H&C Commission MSNZ regulations for vehicles built to Schedule T&C and K regulations.

To date the MSNZ H & C Commission has been very receptive to ideas put forward and historically structured class’s such as HMC, HSC, HSS have found the commission very good to deal with and open minded, like us they need our help as well.

Attached is the plan, so please read through and let us know your thoughts, remember in Historic and Classic racing there should be no technology creep, what’s that saying? “As it was, so shall it be”.