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John Buffum wrote in the "ProRally News Letter", July. 1986.
"There has been a suggestion to have only GrA and N; while Group N may work in Europe, I don't believe that in the USA we should use complete European specification. Our best forms of racing rely on US participation and US preparation rules. The USA is a large powerful nation with major car manufacturers and there seems no reason to force them to adapt to a European system. We have an exellent and well supported Production series. Probably 60% of the entries come from these classes. If we were to adopt Group N instead, at first we would outlaw half the field and in the long run Dodge may homologate the Shelby Turbo. If this happened all the present 100HP production cars would be uncompetitive. We would then come up with displacement classes, but this seems like the dog chasing its tail. NO! Group A for the fast cars retaining the FIA link, Standard Production for the competitive small cars, and Production GT for those wish to go faster but don't own a European car."
- I'd say; pretty smart and fitting words by "The Man"
"There has been a suggestion to have only GrA and N; while Group N may work in Europe, I don't believe that in the USA we should use complete European specification. Our best forms of racing rely on US participation and US preparation rules. The USA is a large powerful nation with major car manufacturers and there seems no reason to force them to adapt to a European system. We have an exellent and well supported Production series. Probably 60% of the entries come from these classes. If we were to adopt Group N instead, at first we would outlaw half the field and in the long run Dodge may homologate the Shelby Turbo. If this happened all the present 100HP production cars would be uncompetitive. We would then come up with displacement classes, but this seems like the dog chasing its tail. NO! Group A for the fast cars retaining the FIA link, Standard Production for the competitive small cars, and Production GT for those wish to go faster but don't own a European car."
- I'd say; pretty smart and fitting words by "The Man"