Disclaimer - I realize I am about to advocate the addition of classes to our Odd Thurs lineup, but the intention is to leverage the rulesets already on line and build and develop cars with which we can participate in the SCI and HRW proxies. Some of these classes may fall within our current classes but I would advocate running them independently. On with the proposal...
Before I became affiliated with you guys, I was a fairly active participant in the proxies on SCI. I know most of you know what these are, but for those who don't, it amounts to building a race entry to a set of rules and then send it away to organizers who send it to some pre-arranged list of tracks (nationally, internationally, and globally) to be run by local hosts. They are a fun way to compete when you don't have (or know about) neighbors who also play with toy cars. I also think it's cool to have cars which have been to more countries than I have.
Proxies cover a wide spectrum of racing eras, and the rules spec out a variety of performance levels. The diversity is such that there is probably something out there which everyone will find interesting. Lately there has been some discussion on SCI about some proxies being more successful in generating interest and surviving. I would like to take a step in the direction of supporting them and getting myself back into proxies, and I'd like to take you along. Well, most of you...
There is one particular proxy which hits close to home- The Last Open Road. Our own Mr Greenman runs that circus and I know that we have several NASTE members currently campaigning in that event. I also heard Greg mention that this may be the last iteration of that circus, and I believe the concern was lack of interest/entries when faced with the effort of herding the kittens. I would personally like to see this proxy continue but will certainly hold no ill will if it doesn't.
Another proxy popular with the NASTE crowd is the IPS. This proxy seems fairly popular and healthy, and has a bit of highly-developed competition. I've entered it before and gotten my butt whooped. It was fun though and a good application of time and energy.
I can go on listing them- Carrera Scramble, SCITCC, Slot.It Shootout, The Can-Am Proxy, the Trans Am Proxy... There's a bunch of them and you can see them all HERE (SCI's selection) or HERE (HRW's offerings)
My point is, there are many interesting proxies out there and I would bet that if we started running one(?) as a class, using the rules posted on line, and building class legal cars, we could improve our own car building skills, develop and tune some cars better, and lead to total NASTE domination of ALL proxies.
Or at least the one (or more) we pick to pursue.
All of which brings me back to my actual point. Would anyone be interested in building a car (or more) to a proxy rule set(s) and racing that class(es) as a group?
What I might suggest are the IPS on SCI (2 current entries but previously fairly popular among some NASTE-ists; similar to our classics class) and the Ford-Porsche Proxy (4 NASTE entries planned, similar to our GT class but era- and marque-specific).
For those of you who have read this far through this post, thank you for your time and interest. At this point I have belabored my case, now it's time for your input.
Thoughts?
Chris
