In lieu of the safety incentive, the point caps for Street, Mod-S, and Mod-M were increased. The reasoning behind this was that the incentive effectively made it so that you HAD to get safety equipment to remain competitive, increasing the cost of entry, rather than encouraging safety equipment for safety purposes.

Instead, certain mods were banned without the use of safety mods (e.g. airbag removal, aftermarket steering wheels).

 

When pushing a car to its' limit maybe someone who has the proper safety equipment should be slightly more 'competitive'?

Regardless of the "competition", Cali no longer has 'promotion' of safety equipment. Something I thought was a really good idea... Still do.

And if safety equipment was really that big of a difference, maybe just reduce the incentive some.

 

The incentive was tiny, but basically everyone was being forced to spend an extra 4k on safety equipment to get that extra incentive to be competitive.

If you look at the times, the margins between 1st place and 6th are often less than half a second, so people will do anything to get that half second, at their wallet's expense. It also makes for a very high cost of entry, and newbie-unfriendly. We're trying to grow the series this year, and taking away that safety incentive and increasing the point totals accordingly has proven to work in terms of expanding.

In terms of times, I personally run faster than all published magazine times in an essentially stock CR, and I'm typically seconds away from being on the podium.

The incentive for having an approved rollbar, seat, and harness was 0.5 points, which by our system, is equal to 0.5 seconds at Buttonwillow 13CW, our benchmark. As previously stated, the gap between winning and completely missing the podium is often less than 0.5 seconds.


None of the tracks in California require the S2000 to have additional safety equipment; some organizations require you to pass the broomstick test. Most drivers pass with just a bucket seat and low position rail, including myself. Texas tracks may have different policies.


On the other hand, Miata challenge explicitly requires all participants to have a roll bar installed, as Miata A-pillars are... well.... weak.

 

any updates? I'm hoping for something like this this spring

 

x2 Get a date and a track and ill be there