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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.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 19:47:19 -0700
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On 2024-10-09 19:28, Tom Elam wrote:
> 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.

<sigh>

All you show is your ignorance.

Yes; after the race, the SCCA determined that an on-track incident was 
the fault of the driver of the Swift DB6 Kent, Jonathan Kotyk.

But none of that changes the fact that it THE CAR was clearly capable of 
running at the front.