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Originally Posted by camcojb
read Charley's response for more info. It's not a street driven car anymore, I think he said it had been tracked only since the 70's, no street time at all since then. The owner didn't drive the car, had a friend drive it who was a national autocross champion and I believe owns a driving school. So in essence anybody now has to compete against a pro in a race car if they want to knock him off the top. I don't know of a true street car that will do that.
I had no problem with him competing, he earned it by winning a Goodguys autocross event which automatically qualified him for the shootout. Super nice guys and a very cool car, but it'd take a race car most likely to compete with him, as his is a race car with a pro driver, and a substantial weight advantage.
As Charley mentioned, they might bring him back for the exhibition class, they had other race cars in that class running last year, cool to see.
Jody
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No arguments there Jody. I guess no matter how good the coverage, this kind of stuff just doesn't get out in the open without sites like this. I still stand by my first comment, changing rules to eliminate competition is never a good thing. But, in this case it sounds like he got in through a "loop hole". If rules get changed to maintain the spirit of the whole competition then that is not a bad thing. Thanks to all of you that were there giving the whole story.
