by that 31 car » April 1st, 2007, 1:12 am
Corey:
I'll take them one at a time.
Combined weight, not wanted by Me, asked for at ISR rules meeting last year by Dave Wahl and others. Now that there's a little heat flying around, the guys who asked for it to be considered ain't saying much. More fun to let me catch the heat, I guess. I offered to do the data collection rather than ratify it right then and there without any study. After data collection was done showed at our (USSA) spring convention. Driver discussion lent to board deciding to vote to reccommend at ISR meeting. Since then there has been some inclination to reconsider. Still a long way off till May. By the way, Marcel,Wally and I requested a five year lock on rules for the class, which will be reviewed this year, so now tell me how I am ruining the class. The way you tell it, I'm probably responsible for the Cart /Indy car deal too.
Mod III: Mod III engines were legal at the time, and were not one-off's.Limited availability yes, but not only the two you suggest. Besides that class ran in other associations at the time and each association had it's designated SKi Doo stars. CCMQ/Scm had theirs, OSRF when still running had their guys. Remember there still was factory participation at that time.When ever you have factory participation you have a special chosen few. Even in Snow cross right now, even with teams being privately held, some teams are more blessed than other's.
Pro Sprint 56 HP. Don't even try to hang that deal on USSA, you know better than that.Engines were certified 56 HP by a dyno process observed by ISR.Class was a core class that all oval associations needed to offer.Class came from the 56hp derivative from cross country racing of the day.In fact USSA was treatened with an injunction when it wanted to drop the class due to it being grossly unfair to the competitors. Call Tom Rager if you want to verify, he was Ski Doo sales at the time, but he knows the story as he was directed to do the follow up with me.. I went so far in trying to curb it that Ski Doo brought Hueitzinger over from Rotax during the derby, just to verify construction and specs.Your perception and history lesson is badly skewed on this deal.
Pro SPrint 500. If you want to blame that one on me, fair enough, I'll take it. But do you really think the class would still be viable with piston port 503's only?
Formula III: Was a manufacturers controlled class and you know it. Olav, I and the Gara's wrote the first rules, but frankly we lost all control as soon as the manufacturers decided it was the showcase class, which was immediately after announcement. You are still tight with Olav, make a call, ask for the history, see if he feel's USSA had any power over the class once it was endorsed by the factory's. Your suggestion that USSA had some sort of control over how that went is ridiculous. Ask Ole Tweet the names he called me when I objected to the changes, Ask Chester how he manuvered the class, ask Gordy Muetz the Yamaha position, ask Ray Monsrud the Polaris position. Those guys were the race managers of the time, and they had lots to do with it, along with their marketing departments. They all found that if they only had two guys each, that was all they needed, plus even they were set back by the money spent to get the job done. It was a factory showcase and and was never meant to be anything else. Ask anybody who ever raced it besides the factory supported select. For a few years others ran it, only to find they were not in the hunt equipment wise or budget wise. The Scheer's and Sperry had some real good one's but they were not still the chosen Polaris stuff, Arctic had some others at first also, but it got down to Brian real quick. On this one your history is dead wrong as to USSA causing anything to happen, problem was we couldn't cause anything to happen to stop it.
Formula I: USSA did not create Champ, Champ was created after Ski Doo decided to abandon the twin track program. One, because they were the only guys in it, and two because in the marketing groups mind it ran it's course. The other two factory's , Polaris and Arctic wanted a more recognizable form of sled and the directive out of manufacturers meetings was to create a single track class for the current engine platform of the time, which was 440. The rules were done at ISR with contributions by all involved.
My belief's and having lived through it.
Jerry Korinek
