CS & ES got softer.
CS - 2010 - .840
2011 - .833
ES - 2010 - .829
2011 - .825
The new numbers are out
http://www.scca-chicago.com/solo/indexes/
The good news GS gets harder, the bad news HS gets a lot softer and ES gets harder (good news for me)
CS & ES got softer.
CS - 2010 - .840
2011 - .833
ES - 2010 - .829
2011 - .825
You wish. All of stock classes got softer, but ES less so.
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All of the classes got softer except AM, EM and FSAE. Average change -.006
Last edited by Robert; 11-12-2010 at 09:48 AM.
Yea! STR got a break, maybe we can hang with the STS cars now! :)
Polished Turd Racing
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I'm still not sure why ST is lower than STX, considering that STX was won by an ST car this year. Stupid Civics.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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Here's another list showing % change YOY.
Average % change is (0.71%) for all classes and (0.73%) when you remove the top/bottom 2 classes (remove largest outliers).
Class % Change
FJC (2.20%)
SMF (1.72%)
GP (1.53%)
AS (1.52%)
HS (1.49%)
FS (1.19%)
EP (1.15%)
ASP (1.03%)
CM (0.98%)
DS (0.97%)
FJB (0.96%)
BS (0.94%)
SM (0.91%)
SSM (0.91%)
DM (0.88%)
CS (0.83%)
DP (0.80%)
F125 (0.73%)
BM (0.73%)
STX (0.72%)
STR (0.71%)
STU (0.71%)
ESP (0.70%)
BSP (0.69%)
CP (0.69%)
DSP (0.59%)
CSP (0.58%)
BP (0.57%)
ST (0.49%)
ES (0.48%)
FP (0.46%)
FM (0.44%)
GS (0.37%)
STS (0.36%)
FSP (0.36%)
SS (0.35%)
FJA (0.35%)
XP (0.34%)
EM 0.33%
FSAE 2.19%
Looking at my M3. I can run in STU or BSP.
In BSP on Hoosier A6s on a 60 second course Hoosiers are only 1.26 seconds faster according to PAX? NO!
I ran Hoosiers at the BMW event and was 2.7 ahead of Thomas, 1.3 ahead of Kenny, 2.6 of Jim.
I don't think the ST? PAX is accurate with R-Comp classes.
M3 is always the answer.
Really the only thing you can do in STX that you can't do in ST is move up to 15x8/9" wheels and add a diff. Yet every time someone tries this, they don't go any faster.
The car that won STX this year was an ST car in ST trim. ST was faster than STX at 6 out of 8 National Tours this year*. I don't care that ST is "supposed to be" a slower class than STX - it isn't. The Civics are 700+ pounds lighter than anything else in the class, and they have a significantly better tire/weight ratio than anything else in class, which really matters when you're dealing with street tires.
Oh well. At least the '12 re-org will stop them from cherry picking STX. Hopefully after the re-org we can get the PAX numbers right as well.
- Dixie – ST - 115.207, STX - 115.433
- Texas – ST - 168.127, STX - 169.936
- San Diego – ST - 95.725, STX – 96.361
- Wendover – ST – 103.433, STX – 105.244
- Blytheville – ST – 110.344, STX – 108.800 STX finally wins one!
- Peru – ST – 99.374, STX – 100.822
- Finger Lakes – ST – 162.498, STX – 162.421 STX wins again… by .077 seconds
- Packwood – ST – 105.934, STX – 107.089
- Nationals – ST – 125.156, STX – 124.804 STX wins again… except it’s won by an ST car. The fastest “real” STX car is 125.645, behind the ST winner
- *Blytheville #2 – ST – 113.440, STX – 106.044 (I’m not counting this one, since the sole ST entrant was more than seven seconds off the pace. Not a legitimate data point imho)
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
You just need to put 6in wide wheels and an open diff in the RX8
With the current classing STX has to have a harder PAX than ST.
I agree that some of the numbers are strange when you look at stock vs. ST, vs. SP
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looking at the rules make that 7.5 wheels with 225 tires.
Last edited by Robert; 11-12-2010 at 11:31 AM.
The fact is Rick Ruth tends to look at is what the class "should be" running and STX has not lived up to it's potential. I think STXs pax is right where it needs to be.
To start with there really isn't a big difference:
BMW/RX8 2750lbs on 265mm tires = 2.59lbs per mm
EF Civic 1950lbs on 195mm tires = 2.50lbs per mm
But even then there are cars in STX that have much better tire/weight than the EF civic:
Integra Type R 2350lbs on 245 tires = 2.39lbs per mm
240SX 2400lbs on 265mm tires = 2.26lbs per mm
BMWs and RX8s make great daily drivers/weekend racers but even after the reorg they still won't be the cars to have IMHO.
Don't get your hopes up. For 6 years STS (formerly STS2) had a harder pax even though it was ALWAYS slower than ST (formerly STS). Rick Ruth kept the PAX at the class' potential and it took STS 6 years to catch up...