The new SVRA FF Rule Book is out
Here are the new rules for all three SVRA FF classes for 2016.
The changes are significant relative to minimum weights, tires, shocks, brakes, engines (cylinder heads), and the years of eligibility. For example, in the PCF class (now 1982-2008), the change from Hoosier R60a bias plys to the Toyo R888s adds 26 lbs. of total weight to the car.
http://www.svra.com/tech-bulletins/t...ford-rulebook/
Glenn Bilawsky
Totally AGREE .... This is WRONG
All this is going to do is to show that SVRA is nothing but a 'for profit' group. I hope that Monoposto does not fiollow the pressure being applied to match up with SVRA.
In addition, I hope that VDCA and VSCDA stick to the original rules that have helped all of us grow the FF contingency. I guarantee that if the SVRA loses the mid-west and east coast FF groups they will rethink this strategy as the west coast has ALWAYS followed their own rules when it came to FF; which is why this mess was created!
Now.... onto the good news! VRG is in the process of announcing a FF Challenge Series and I can pretty much guarantee that Toyo will not be allowed and we have FF of up to 39 and averaging 20+ per event.
Second piece of good news ... Hoosier is coming out with a treaded tire for FF that will match Avon/Dunlop so this should eliminate the supply issue regardless of what Avon or Dunlop do for production. I know I would rather support a company dedicated to racing!!
Just my $.02 .... see you at the races!!
--- Christopher Shoemaker
Royale Racing, LLC
Glad to see these changes
I have been racing Formula Fords for a number of years, and am licensed with several vintage organizations, including SVRA, which for the past few years since Tony Parella took the wheel has been the best development I have seen in vintage racing.
I was not involved in these good rules changes, but it is clear they are NOT about making money, they are about making racing our cars more affordable and about increasing car counts at the events we attend. There had been a definite Balkanization of Formula Ford racing that made it difficult to go from one club's events to another. This will help eliminate that.
With various organizations, I have raced on various spec treaded tires and various spec slick tires and have a shedful of different kinds of tires I have bought to comply with differing rules. And I found they didn't make a dime's worth of difference in the actual enjoyment of racing experience.
In the past year, I have tried out the less expensive and more durable Toyo's that are now used by some organizations and that SVRA is now incorporating. They work just fine, and the sky is not going to fall.
Humans, probably as a result of genetic survival instincts, are notoriously reluctant to accept change, and we see it manifested in so many ways in our lives. Despite my own tendency to be affected by that trait and resist even beneficial change, I plan to be open to these beneficial changes and comply with the rules and participate in as many SVRA events as I can, including the bucket-list opportunities at the Brickyard and COTA that I could never have experienced before Tony made it happen.
Let's go racing.
Question about tire heights...
So if you take a car with Dunlops, and install the 888's....what combination would you have to raise or lower either end of the car to achieve the same ride height...
I ask this because some vintage cars already had to raise their ride height out of optimum rear axle angle due to the Dunlop being shorter than the tires of say 1970...
Mike W
the problems of how one governs
is it............progress??
or is it.................chip, chip, chipping away such that things are not ruined all at once but eventually?
or is it.................business?
or is it a 'good intention'................that proves to make racing more expensive?
most important question..............is this........
A) the byproduct of a committee sort of thing [read: shove it down your throat] or
B) the collective ideas - after putting several votes out on various topics - among virtually all with even the shadow of a dog in the fight much less current members?
If the vote would have been only the current...........it is possible to call it fair.....
however.......
if the vote was also open to non-members WHO MAY LATER BE INTERESTED IN GOING TO THE EVENTS BECAUSE OF THE RULE CHANGES [read: increased car counts] then one can see the changes as an attempt to increase car counts from the beginning of any attempt at changing rules............rather than merely a shoved concept with the shovers saying it's justified because they think the changes will increase car count........it can be viewed as more fair
VRG Turkey Bowl paddock... wish I were there to listen
I gotta figure there will be a robust debate and unvarnished commentary going on at the VRG Turkey Bowl this weekend on this topic. Though Monoposto rules may still be somewhat viable in SVRA in the future, the concepts of Vintage and Club Ford seem to have become divorced. It's a capitalistic democratic republic and people will vote with their pocketbooks and it's likely the numbers will grow, but many old guard and many with tighter budgets, will be, or at least feel, left behind.
Gone will be these days of pinching pennies and somehow managing to get to the track and race.