ERC Race Series - Euro Saloons & Sports

[ERC]

Remind us again Dale about the total amount of panel damage at the Festival of the last few years?

Club cars? Oh dearie me.

Maybe you are one who would prefer we took the whole shooting match to Auckland car Club and left you with your tiny grids to gloat over the empty tarseal, whilst paying triple the entry fees you are paying now? Just remember when a 40 car ERC grid is out there, that your ten car grid (at best) is being subsidised by them.

You can ignore the realities as much as you like Dale but I suggest that you trawl back over the last 18 seasons and analyse exactly what percentage of the meeting income has come from our two ERC groups at the meetings we have supported.

You persist in pointing the finger at the series which by your own admission is successful and has been successful for a number of years. Your own series has yet to reach even a quarter grid of its own and much as you keep harping on about it, as yet, it is not a success as measured by any criteria other than the cars conform to a specific set of rules. Success has to be multi dimensional.

Our series goes well beyond just the racing as the camaraderie is the equal of any other series anywhere, usually proven by the turn out at the annual dinner - FREE to all paid up drivers.

Criticising a series because it is not run by a committee is sinking to a level that quite frankly, appals me. Whilst your choice of European dictator may suit your purposes, I think that maybe you need to look at Singapore's history as a counter. Anyway, who is the one with the moustache? LOL

To get it back on track, maybe (Alec Issigonis'?) the correct counter is - "A camel is thoroughbred horse designed by a committee."
or "The ideal is a committee of two - with one permanently out of town."

Maybe because it is St Patrick's Day today, there is a green eyed Monster lurking? Different philosophies but none are perfect - and some are less perfect than others.

Challenge or criticise all you like but it is the drivers who really decide, not me, not you, not MSNZ, not the H & C Commission.

Tony Herbert summed things up very nicely years ago when many cars were being denied a CoD for all sorts of spurious reasons, when dealing with the late JC (no pun intended.

"The trouble with JC is that he would only be really happy if every other driver was running a Wolseley 1500 fitted with a 1950cc MGB engine, Minilite wheels and an alloy crossflow head."