I very much doubt if these regulations will harm the honda class or resale values.
Although your club runs the grids on a libre basis, do they also run the championship that way or have separate ones?
This `shock, horror' reaction was expected even though everyone should have known it was in the pipeline - when the tender for the new engine was published it said that it would have to be slower than the existing comer and other classes would be made slower.
When the comer was the official championship engine all other cadets were supposed to be slower. The two engines introduced more recently (WTP and Easykart) were race engines (like the new Iame) and had to be restricted.
This did not result in comers always being faster than honda at all tracks
Now, Honda may be a bit slower next year but from threads on this forum there seems to be a big performance difference between out-the-box and special engines anyway. Will the restrictor bring them closer in line - perhaps a good thing?
Honda is a great class and really started to grow when people got fed up with trying to compete against drivers who had parents willing to pay £10k to £20k for an engine and teams became the norm at national level and at many club meetings.
Hopefully this money will now move into the Iame class.
Of course there will be people with limited budgets who will want to compete in Iame because it is the official british cadet championship class. Will comer die out? - very unlikely when you have Zip as the main agent for the engine and tryton carb.
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