L & G,

During the technical inspections of the various GT races the last year it appears quite a lot of teams have problems the get their front tyre height on 26.0 mm and still maintain a reasonable body height, especially on the splitter side, of around 1.0 to 1.5 mm.

After some investigation we decided to adapt the rule a little bit. So the rule is:
3.3 Front Wheels - Min. ∅ 25.5 mm which effectively means that anything measured BELOW 25.45 during technical inspection is TO LOW!

Note: Changes to the rules compared to the rules we applied in july (Alsdorff) are underlined!

Note: Rules which do not apply are striked through! (ie: Rule)

http://www.slotracinglemans.com/newforum/news.php?action=view&catid=4&aid=138

Another change that will be good to apply to the rules is to allow the use of comercial carbon parts for the chassis.

Hi francesc,

Yes, I know. Problem is that you cannot determine whatsoever whether it's a homegrown part or made by any other commercial exploitant. If we allow it which I'm perfectly happy to do basically what you say is: Build your own chassis. it doesn't matter what brand...even yoru own brand.

Commercial carbon parts for the SLP chassis can be bought at Renn Center Trier (home of the SLP chassis). these carbon parts have been designed by Martin Bartelmes himself. don't know if carbon parts of other brands are that easy to be determinded.


MIKE

Hello Willem

You are right when you say it’s difficult to determine if a part is a commercial part or not, but i think that the main goal in the rules is to give the same oportunities to everybody.
If somebody mount a identical part of a commercial one but home manufactured, what’s the problem? You can check in the stores what parts exists in a commercial way and what not, if you know that exists a guide holder in carbon for schöler , it’s normal to allow the carbon guide holders for Schöler, because everybody can acces to this materials. If you don’t want to spend this money an prefer to make this part yourself, why you can’t do?
I think will be good to allow all parts, comercial or home made, who don’t modify the basic design of the original chasis. If you put a carbon guideholder, you are not changing the original design, the part is the same but in another materials.

But if we apply the politics of don’t allow anything not comercial, what happend with the bodies?, it’s the same problem, and a body is a really important part in the behavior of the car. Not everybody can acces to a bodies like the ones that you use, and it’s really more difficult to make a body like yours than a carbon guide holder…..

The rules must be in the profit of the racers, not in the profit of manofacturers or stores, and must be coherent, and is not coherent to allow sofisticated home made bodies and not allow some comercial chassis parts.

Regards

Francesc,

To some extend I agree with you fully but I don't want fully home grown chassis'. As you can read, the guide is already free.

The idea of the rules is to make it accesible as much as possible. Also for less experienced builders and drivers. As for the body: If you take a Carrera body which you have to modify relatively less compared to carbon copy of any mould there is no potential difference in performance of the car whatsoever.