Pat,
My point was that when the car, non-Otto cycle, classes were put together well, actually combined, the decision was made to base them on a weight allowance. The rules makers at the time had no direction as to which way to go. The final decision was to use the International standard. I am aware that there are differences between cars and bikes. The bike Omega classes were to be based on a single chassis configuration. I have no idea why we are where we are now.
DW
Fair enough. While electric racing didn't get big until recently, it has been going on for over 20 years from what I read. I'm so new to the game, that I didn't even race an electric car until this month. I was impressed.
It's going to get a lot bigger, and if it migrates to the LSR in number, you are going to have actual production cars running against streamliners, and 4000lb motorcycles running against bikes with license plates. The more weight, the more HP. Battery + motor weight = HP. Unlike cars, there is no displacement, fuel, or supercharging. There are 2 ways to deal with it. Volts of battery and weight. Volts is like displacement, and weight is like fuel/supercharging. I can run 200v, but without a lot of batteries, it can't make big power. I can run 48v, but at a fixed weight, can't go very fast.
At some future point, it will have to be either be adjusted, or just reduce electric entries. Few can afford a full unlimited streamliner project.
There are a lot of experts in this field and I'm not one of them yet. If classes get altered in this area, you need to find somebody with experience, but won't cherry pick rules for their team.
IMO, the DT class was a similar issue. Minitrucks, unibodies, miditrucks, and full sized trucks run in the same class with the same engines. You'd have to be an idiot to run a full sized truck. But some people will run what they like to drive, regardless of class structure. I don't buy or build a racecar or bike for a specific class, never have. I buy what I like, and dial up the performance.
It is refreshing to see that many of the later DT entries have been full sized trucks. It shows I'm not unique in that school of thought.
While it might be a Band of Idiots, they have fun. Hopefully electric racers will see it the same way. Running with a major handicap just to have fun.
I think that is the most common bond in sportsman level racing, to have fun regardless. Not number of wheels, body shape, or locomotion. Adrenaline.