[David Hodgson]

Everyone goes out there to have fun and 'better' their own times, you can do that at any club or open trackday. The Nationals is about competion, always has been. If you are out there to better your own times, you are competing against yourself, so why not against a bunch of other guys or their machines as well?

It's all fun, just 'less' fun going out there knowing your competition has been taken away!

As the club has evolved and with it the cars and technology, the organisers have always looking for ways to accomodate everyones needs. Sometimes you gotta wonder what they're thinking.

This thread started with the concern about class 3. Rather than start a new thread, I'm gonna hijack and have a whinge about Class 1. As I said earlier, its all fun, but a lot less fun when you run 15" street tyres, low tech gear, but when you freshen up your 60's 289 or 302 you tickle the ports or install a cam, that you get penalized and get bumped up to a class that runs sticky tyres and has unlimited brake and engine mods. Isn't that what Tickford did? They qualify for Class 1. It just came out of a factory, not my garage. Kinda takes the thrill away when your grouped with cars that have way more advantage than what your little bump stick gives.

Now I'm started, might as well have a say about the show n shine. Each states president will select 5 cars to represent that state. How's he going to know what's out in the country areas. It'll be capital city cars selected every time. Is your club Cobra Car Club of Vic, NSW QLD or Cobra Car Club of Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast? Can't see this one working. There's a couple of nice cars in Queanbeyan and Grenfell, that I'll bet aren't in the NSW pres sights.