As usual Shadow is the voice of reason. I am willing to admit that my memory is clouded by the passage of time but I'm pretty sure the very first Enuro was timed. Each team had to bring two scorers. One for your car and one for a random car. As you can imagine scoring was a chore. I'm willing to accept that I am wrong though. I like the Friday night idea.

My radical suggestions...for the suggestion box

Its not radical when thats exactly what's been happening.

You are right on memory is clouded by the passage of time, which why the obvious of as a class "evolves" i.e. costs more, the numbers go down and it starts to die off. That's the important one everyone forgets, even when it right in front of them.

For a 4 bannger not being able to run with V8's that's not entirely true. It was a 4 cylnder that won the last enduro at Peterborough. It was a Honda mini-stock, up against race engine powered old style thundercars. Although that's a just a case of things getting so out of hand from all angles.

Im sure that mini was far from stock and was a money pit just like the rest of racecars

To be clear....I never said a 4 banger couldn't be competitive. I said you'll never get 120 guys building them while the big cars are still the norm.

There was a clock used during the enduros in the past, but it was not to time the length of the event; it was used for scoring. The clock was started when the race started, and counted up in seconds. Each team's scorer recorded the time displayed on the clock each time their car crossed the start/finish line. The clock was stopped when a red flag was displayed, and then restarted when the green came back out.

They stopped using the clock when they went to electronic scoring (transponders).