Well if the rumours were true the Four Fun's days were numbered anyway, so this sure is one way to make that happen. Now you "rubbin is racin" guys will understand why the previous management was so strict about NO contact - by the sounds of how rough the Four Funs have been this year, this decision was inevitable. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the short notice - but if the rough drivers out there can't respect their peers on the track something had to be done. THOSE are the people you should blame.
I can't believe I'm gonna say this - I don't blame Wes at all for this decision. 🙂
This really hurts you guys that just wanna race and don't try to kill each other.
Holland Landing, you may have something there with Peterborough. This all may work out pretty good for them. If the drivers don't go at least the cars probably will.
Mark
when did this come in affect????? pretty pointless division then if you ask me!!! thank god for wes good and his terrific decisions! plane and simple decisions like this is what is goin to make short track racing in canada die! i applaude you mr. good
Nothing will make short track racing die quicker than someone dieing....
+10 Ross. You are Absolutley Correct.
Sunset Speedway “Four Fun” 2008 Rules
Not For Serious Racers, Just For Serious Fun
22) Mild contact is generally part of racing. In the Four Fun class it is not.
Deliberate or out of control contact will not be allowed.
The first year I saw this class ZERO contact was the rule period if it happened intentional or not you were out.
I think at that time this was something that all drivers paid very close attention too as they knew, even a litte scrub your out.
Look at this last Saturday, the same guys were into it more than once.
I just think somewhere everybody lost site of what the class was intended for, and now the track has to make a stand due to everything that went down this past weekend.
Personally I think killing the season for everybody and giving them 4 days to install cages is absurd.
I.M.O.
Saturday let em run, we have a new falgman for the 4 cyl's and 4 funs, make sure hes up to speed on the zero contact rule. Follow through with it.
A couple of these incidents on saturday could have been avoided had this rule been enforced from the start.
I think Saturday was a real eye opener for everybody, however I don't think it is unfair to say this class has been the most physical out of all 4 in the last year and a half.
Some due to inexperience, some due to over agressiveness and some lack of officiating, even with that being said the flagman should not have to babysit the class either. It is 0 contact plain and simple.
The rules are the rules and the envelope has been pushed to it's limit in the class, the Tech guy quit as a result of a lot of crap thrown his way brought on by drivers who wanted to continually push it.
It is unfortuneate that it looks like things are headed the way they are but in hindsight I think it could have been avoided.
It's terrible a few people got banged up Saturday, I don't disagree with the need for updated standards of safety in the class, however I don't think the lack of was what caused the circus saturday.
Granted if the cars were better equipped the injuries may not have been what they were, but in this class it should not have happened in the first place.
I think 90% of the people in 4 fun are more than capable of putting on an exciting no contact show and go green to checkered without any grief.
It may be too late to salvage the balance of the season with only a handfull of cars having the required equiptment in them now to run and I am sure there won't be many who will do it with 5 weeks left to run and I really feel bad for all of you.
Don't give up on it untill something official is posted or otherwise, it may be worth trying to get together as a group and discussing it with Wes and the track officials.
I am sure Wes is taking a lot of heat on both ends after Saturday night.
After sleeping on it, I woke up this morning to find that my Tempo was still on my mind.
I am severly disappointed in these decisions. Honestly, don't tell us one thing and then switch it up without notice what so ever.
On another hand, you have to think of it this way, we were off the track for four of five weeks, getting back on there crazy things are bound to happen (it's happened before and not in the 4funs, I'm sure.) It's unfortunate that what happened did, it's obvious NOBODY wants people to be taken to the hospital. But c'mon, to spring this on us at 11pm on a MONDAY night and sending track staff to tell us and not even a courtesy phone call, please. Ridiculous. But I guess stuff like that has come expected, just like there was never any phone calls about rainouts either...
Like I said before, I work nights, so is Wes going to be up at 8am to let me into the track at 9am so I can get my car, if I so happen to have a trailor with me, and if I decide to comply to these new rules in three days?
I'm baffled. Completely baffled. With all these changes, (I know it's been discussed many times) that people are just going to move up into the roadrunners and they're be a ton of rookies in that class wrecking everybody else there too. How do you want to weed them out then? What may be easier would just be to say all fourfuns are now "Charger" division cars, taking a page out of Barrie's books, and they need to be set up like one. End. But don't give us short notice and like no time.
The idea of changing all these things out for NEXT year had a bigger and better responce from EVERYBODY.
This idea of Peterborough sounds great... maybe I'll join in. Road trip anybody? We could all meet in the Sunset Parkinglot and have a big convoy of FourFuns... haha
Maybe somebody up that way will buy my Tempo...
Slammer - Of course, there is no contact allowed... or there was no contact allowed. But there's been too much contact this season and not enough cautions and not enough black flags. I think thats all it was. I mean really you get the odd rub, doesn't completely warrent a BF, but when you see one car trunk another car, or spin them, or intentionally run them up or down the track using force that may cause one or both drivers to lose control, and may cause a pile up, maybe instead of shaking the black flag like they're scolding a naughty child they should just full out wave it. But yes, maybe our class is too far gone now. It's sad.
Holland Landing, you may have something there with Peterborough. This all may work out pretty good for them. If the drivers don't go at least the cars probably will.
Mark
Do you guys not LEARN!!! All the 4-fun now go to Peterborough with the SAME rules. Doing the SAME thing.
Guess what, its going to end the SAME way!!!!