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OK, so the return for investment balance has led first to Hyundai and now Mitsubishi to leave and the prime enabler, the man who said "you can have the lunatics running the asylum", the benevolent dictator is nearly gone.
Is this not as much an opportunity as it is a dilemna?
Now some people who don't understand dialog very well think that if a person isn't saying explicitly this or that then no suggestions have been offered so rather than phrasing suggestions in the forming of the questions, I'm going to be explicit for once, since that's what it take I guess.
It's obvious to all that next years Championship will with only 1 overwhelming massive budget team be a pointless excercise in every sense of the word.
With the handmaiden of the MFG council gone, but word that he will be relaced by one of his handlers, there reamins a serious credibility crisis in the governance of the sport.
IS THERE SOME WAY THAT MEMBERSHIP AND THE ACTIVE CAN BEGIN THE PROCESS TO CHANGE THE FOCUS OF THE RALLY DEPARTMENT AND THE SERIES???
Here's some simple suggestions which MANY people have picked up from writings here but some haven't
MAKE THE PERF RALLY BOARD POSITIONS ELECTIVE
MAKE TERMS OF THE PERF RALLY BOARD CLEAR AND LIMITED AND ROLLING.
ROTATE THE POSITION OF 'BIG KAHUNA'
MAKE ALL RULES CHANGES HAVE THE NAME OF THOSE PROPOSING ATTACHED, AND ASSIGN A PRB MEMBER TO SHEPARD THE RULE
MAKE THE MEETINGS OF PRB MORE ACCESSIBLE, PUBLISH VOTES.
MAKE TERMS OF ALL CONTRACTS OF THIS NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION PUBLIC.
What possible reason can there reasonable be for resisting a membership-democratic process in administering and responding to this sport?
And as for the Championship, there is still no term National Champion, a huge and inexplicable blunder considering the promotional impossiblity of the phrase "series overall ponts leader" or whatever the hell it si now.
Time to institute a concept of National Champion.
This follows the practice elsewhere including the WRC Drivers Championship.
It must be able to represnt the whole country so it must have broad participation.
That right there means that it cannot be a cruise-thru for the big budget importer or USA distributor teams and drivers, they have their Manufacturers Title to play for.
That means it has to be the broadest possible inclusion. But the levelest field means some restrictions.
I suggest that points toward the title Nation Champion should be awarded only in the old simplified Gp2 thing some have been pushing for 10 years: 2000cc-2000lbs-2wd-2 man crew.
You can still drive your P or PGT or open cars don't worry! but if you want to be clled National Champion, you will want to be in this class.
Enough suggestions, now
IN LIGHT OF THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED BY THE EMPTINESS OF the next season, there's no better time than now.
For a better tommorrow* maybe back to the future?**
John "Hard Boiled" Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
Black Rocket Rally Tires
http://www.blackrockettires.com/
*Who has seen that great film?
** or the covolution in that one?
Is this not as much an opportunity as it is a dilemna?
Now some people who don't understand dialog very well think that if a person isn't saying explicitly this or that then no suggestions have been offered so rather than phrasing suggestions in the forming of the questions, I'm going to be explicit for once, since that's what it take I guess.
It's obvious to all that next years Championship will with only 1 overwhelming massive budget team be a pointless excercise in every sense of the word.
With the handmaiden of the MFG council gone, but word that he will be relaced by one of his handlers, there reamins a serious credibility crisis in the governance of the sport.
IS THERE SOME WAY THAT MEMBERSHIP AND THE ACTIVE CAN BEGIN THE PROCESS TO CHANGE THE FOCUS OF THE RALLY DEPARTMENT AND THE SERIES???
Here's some simple suggestions which MANY people have picked up from writings here but some haven't
MAKE THE PERF RALLY BOARD POSITIONS ELECTIVE
MAKE TERMS OF THE PERF RALLY BOARD CLEAR AND LIMITED AND ROLLING.
ROTATE THE POSITION OF 'BIG KAHUNA'
MAKE ALL RULES CHANGES HAVE THE NAME OF THOSE PROPOSING ATTACHED, AND ASSIGN A PRB MEMBER TO SHEPARD THE RULE
MAKE THE MEETINGS OF PRB MORE ACCESSIBLE, PUBLISH VOTES.
MAKE TERMS OF ALL CONTRACTS OF THIS NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION PUBLIC.
What possible reason can there reasonable be for resisting a membership-democratic process in administering and responding to this sport?
And as for the Championship, there is still no term National Champion, a huge and inexplicable blunder considering the promotional impossiblity of the phrase "series overall ponts leader" or whatever the hell it si now.
Time to institute a concept of National Champion.
This follows the practice elsewhere including the WRC Drivers Championship.
It must be able to represnt the whole country so it must have broad participation.
That right there means that it cannot be a cruise-thru for the big budget importer or USA distributor teams and drivers, they have their Manufacturers Title to play for.
That means it has to be the broadest possible inclusion. But the levelest field means some restrictions.
I suggest that points toward the title Nation Champion should be awarded only in the old simplified Gp2 thing some have been pushing for 10 years: 2000cc-2000lbs-2wd-2 man crew.
You can still drive your P or PGT or open cars don't worry! but if you want to be clled National Champion, you will want to be in this class.
Enough suggestions, now
IN LIGHT OF THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED BY THE EMPTINESS OF the next season, there's no better time than now.
For a better tommorrow* maybe back to the future?**
John "Hard Boiled" Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
Black Rocket Rally Tires
http://www.blackrockettires.com/
*Who has seen that great film?
** or the covolution in that one?