Safety and race-field size

**scracha** · 22nd June 2008, 16:27

Originally Posted by clivoris

will talk with the post classic geezers to see if there is a way that all post classic entries can be reviewed for validity, at the meeting.

Very difficult to police. You'll quite possibly loose half the entrants and increase costs (wasn't one of the reasons for pre89 to reduce costs?) to achieve very little. What's the point of banning 1995 ZXR's anyway? Are they considerably better than 1989 ZXR's or likely to blow away FZR4/600's and suchlike.

Originally Posted by clivoris

Is that nervous shuffling I hear?

I'd say, but not for the age of the bike. If the scruts start checking the engine and frame numbers they'll probably find half the bikes are stolen.

Realistically, people are attracted to the VMCC events because of the sheer amount of tracktime that cross entering allows. Due to time and costs, I for one probably would not enter the whole series were it not for cross entering. If the fields are so large, make it a 2 day event. This will allow the club to explore having more races in a given class, splitting classes or having more laps in every race. Increase the additional "cross entered" class fee to compensate for the extra costs. Arrange the most popular "cross entered" classes so that there's more likelyhood a rider can do all their racing on just one day. With all the peso's involved in racing, I doubt many riders would complain about spending an extra few bucks considering the additional track time this achieves.

**Clivoris** · 22nd June 2008, 21:54

Top thinking Stevie. It doesn't seem that I need to panic too much now that we have confirmation that up to 40 bikes can be accommodated within the terms of Manfields licence.
My simplistic understanding of the pre 82/89 era ethic is that it's ok to enter a bike built after 82/89 as long as it is identical to an earlier model or doesn't use technology that wasn't in use or available pre 82/89. Of course this is endlessly debateable but it would seem that the post classics guys generally sort this out well.
Mmmm. I hadn't really considered the possibilty of stolen bikes being raced. Must be a regulation against that somewhere too.

**Grub** · 22nd June 2008, 22:09