Separate racing classes for replicas/continuations in historic racing
02/01/2016
The verdict was close. The question of the weekwas : "Should we ban replicas, completely rebuilt cars and continuation cars from historic racing for the sake of history?"
The background to the question is the increasing appearance of newly built or completely rebuilt racing cars from the 1960s or even 1970s (e.g. Lola T70, Chevron B16, but also others) in classic car races and the increasing inequality of opportunity when these new cars meet really old cars.
However, the respondents to the survey do not want to ban new cars; only 22% were in favor of this. However, the largest proportion, namely 38%, were in favor of setting up separate classes. This would allow old and new racing cars to be judged separately.
A further 34% find the whole discussion unnecessary, as even the so-called original vehicles are usually kept race-ready with many new parts. A change therefore seems unnecessary from this perspective. And a further 4% disagreed again.
For the sake of completeness, here is the graphical evaluation:
All resolutions and comments on previous questions of the week can be found in a separate topic channel.
And of course we have already asked the next question . This time, it's about whether the annual mileage should be limited (as is currently the case in Switzerland) or unlimited for classic cars with privileged ownership, i.e. vehicles with an H license plate or veteran registration.
