Re: Are S197 Mustang GTs too cheaty?
rb92673 wrote:DirtyDuc wrote:As far as I have experienced, no car is turned away. You'll just get penalty laps based on an entirely subjective valuation of your car. Don't sweat it. Do the thing and have fun.
The only car I have seen turned away was a Corvette with all the body panels removed Exocet style at HPR. The cage was also too short for their driver.
That being said, there was a very fast Mustang at the MSR Houston race a while back. It didn't even make a couple of laps before it went into the wall. Cars that are faster than the rest of the field tend to sort themselves out by either blowing up or crashing, hopefully not hurting anyone in the process.
I would suggest finding something else if you want to actually enjoy yourself at the race.
Yea...Not necessarily true. We built the corvette mentioned above. Cage was more than OK. But it was turned away from Lemons due to the fact that we made all of our own body panels. Rules do state you must have OE body parts....which we didn't because the car had been rolled over. (thats how you get a car to meet the budget) It was disappointing it was turned away, but we understand why.
The Corvette is currently running in another series that would allow it. In fact here is a video of Randy Pobst driving it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_t519OEY5w
Moral of the story is stay within the sprit/budget of things and you'll be fine....just don't make your own body.
My bad. It looked like fun though.