Lobbying Tabor would be a waste of time, since the NKRA (who administrate Formula Blue) were instructed by the MSA to do this, without any warning or discussion whatsoever. (Yes, I know Ron is Tabor and Chairman of the NKRA, but it is the NKRA one should lobby, not the trader)
Trials are taking place to resize the restrictors but the restrictors probably aren't and never were the solution to the problem. It may be that the MSA were influenced in their decision.
Nor, in my opinion, would the answer be altering the tyres, since this apparent problem of grippiness only affects one track and then only under certain conditions. It would make as much sense to instruct the track to resurface its offending corner with a different sort of tarmac.
If Blue tyres and speed are too grippy, then why don't certain other classes which at every other track are quicker and grippier also turn over?
Inter61 has proposed one answer, that the engines are not powerful enough to break the tyres away, so that less skilful drivers are too confident in entering a corner and so too many drivers are competing for the same space, with resultant collisions. However since we are talking about predominantly first lap incidents it isn't necessarily going to cut down the overconfidence.
This may point at the real problem, drivers not tyres. There is some evidence to show that certain drivers from this track regard contact driving on the first lap as a desirable method of gaining places and with little fear of punishment since such incidents have been ignored by the clerks.
One might suspect a certain political manoeuvring too. It has been said that a certain faction at Larkhall are keen on 'timed qualifying', while the club continues (and presumably prefers) the 'equal points' system.
The MSA have apparently directed that Timed qualifying is now permissible in this one class, but the biggest single class at the club. So possibly the wedge to open the door, a back door route to the faction getting their own way against the majority's wishes.
In other words, there may be more to this issue than first meets the eye.
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junior blues by 'gibbo' (23 Sep 2009 @ 18:29)
