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Muzza

More options Jul 13 2008, 10:02 am

From: Muzza <mu...@hotmail.com>

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:02:54 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Jul 13 2008 10:02 am

Subject: Re: 450cc

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The condition of cars has nothing to do with the intorduction of
450cc. Without these
" OLDER " cars, there would not be a club. The condition of cars comes
down to
personal issues and a budget. How is intoducing 450cc going to help
this? If the club
dosn't want these older cars then maybe they should say something .

250cc Microsprints is a entry level class into speedway. Thats why I
am a member.

The issue I have is that the 450cc engine was bullied into the 250cc
division. Look at the what
happen when we first voted on them. The majority ruled we would NOT
run 450cc in Qld. As this
was not the answer certain people wanted, the legitamate vote for
NOTrunning 450cc was overturned.

(Q) Can somone tell me why 450cc cars did not start there own class?

450cc cars are not going to do anything for the class other than
increase costs and line the pockects
of interested parties. Thye majority of people are telling me that
these engines are like grenades. How is intoducing a engine where thre
maintenace costs are higher and reliabilty is lower going to improve
the
class?

As for the promotion of the division in a series and media write ups.
The same thing could have been done
as a 250cc class only. I am all for promoting the division but the
450cc issue is not the silver bullet.

Standing up for what you beleive in is not complaining. Being bullied,
intimidated and railroaded is more
a problem.

Just my thoughts.

goody2...@bigpond.com wrote:
> The 450cc issue has certainly stirred a few people up and at times
> myself but going forward the 450cc will not go over in size the Cams
> they are using are for reliabilty not for oversizing their engines.
> The Guys running the 450cc engines have more to worry about than the
> 250cc guys as the 2 strokes can now run to 271cc.
> What some of the QLD guys need to take into account, that the 2 450cc
> Guys that raced in QLD last season are 2 of the best in the country
> they know how to set up their cars and have crew members who know what
> they are doing, i believe that if you want to go fast you need a basic
> 3 things 1. Car Set Up 2. Good Engine 3. Good Driver, but when you
> have cars with 10 year old shocks and torsion bars that should have
> been thrown away years ago and bearings in Bird Cages that also have
> not been looked at in years and the list goes on, this is what i find
> difficult to understand peoples thinking, they would rather hold back
> the division than improve what they have to be more competitive,
> really some of the guys are complaining only because they will have to
> put a effort in were before they did not and ran ok, simply i think
> this scares them!

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