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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: For those who still don't get that the Honda doesn't offer an
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 22:28:39 -0400
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On 10/4/2024 7:20 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-10-02 11:29, Alan wrote:
>> ...ON THE TRACK:
>>
>> At the SCCA National Runoffs this year at Road America in Wisconsin:
>>
>> Fastest qualifier so far IS an FF Honda at 2:22.552.
>>
>> But second fastest is a FF Ford just .181 behind at 2:22.733.
>>
>> <https://cdn.connectsites.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/073/365/ 
>> FF%20Runoffs2024%20Qual%202%20Provisional.pdf>
>>
>> And that's not even remotely a new Formula F chassis! The Swift DB6 
>> chassis dates from 1991...that's 43 years ago!
>>
>> So why is the field mostly Hondas?
>>
>> Because (as I've explained before) time and money spent maintaining a 
>> Formula F Kent in top shape can be spent on more profitable things.
>>
> 
> And, gee, what do you know?
> 
> The "uncompetitive" Kent...
> 
> ...won the 2024 SCCA National Runoffs in Formula F.
> 
> Who'd have thought it?
> 
> :-)

Really?

https://cdn.connectsites.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/073/541/FF%20Runoffs2024%20Race%20Official.pdf

The # 5 car, the Kent, finished 8th in the official results, 1st in 
Provisional Results

Position changed per: Car 5 - Moved behind #81 per SOM - GCR 6.11.1.D,
Appendix P.5. Must have cheated to get moved down that far.

And the 5 car was the only Kent in the race.