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Old 01-06-2010 | 07:23 AM
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Default RE: Updated Weight Requirements?

ORIGINAL: TonyF
Scott, I'm having a very hard time wrapping my head around your point. Are you trying to say we should be weighing an IC model with half of the fuel that it would use for a pattern? How in the world would you determine that? I'm sure I'm not grasping what you are trying to say.
No, I’m not saying that at all. I’m saying maybe the way we’re currently doing things is as fair as we can get, so don’t change. (That is if No Fuel vs. Batteries is the driving factor for a change.)

Will still have all these other points to work through: [:@]

1. Declining participation – what cause can be attributed to 4.3
2. High cost of participation – what cause can be attributed to 4.3
3. Safety – Is 4.3 making models unsafe
4. 4.3 not enforced at the local level therefore is unneeded
5. Why have an arbitrary weight limit
6. 4.3 was not properly enforced at the '09 Nat's and this needs to be addressed

The biggest hurdle these proposals have <at least from where I sit> is that nobody from D1 (or D2 for that matter) is looking for a change. That wheel just ain’t squeaking here! (If I’m wrong and you’re from D1…please contact me!)