Some separatism is a good thing!
This is one of those times more could be better!
Look me in the eye and say that again. 
Which eye, and which that?
Todd, y'all coming to the salt this year? 
A prior commitment by our CFO(Crashing Female Officer) might not allow that this season, it remains to be seen and if so it will be a spectator scene for us I'm sure.
A few less on the road for a week might make a few people happy down in your neck of the woods.
I'm guessing the out of service motor officers and my accountant may not be the few you speak of?
Why is their a difference at all ?
A couple of those items at EM I wasn't aware of, WOW! The (car to bike) difference at ECTA was in 2002 when... well that doesn't really matter, but it remains that the top 5(which it's finally down to now) of both the car and bike points holders are still running on open records that show the teams ability to choose and not the bikes ability to perform(not an easy game I KNOW, but still more of a game then a feat). Meaning the final standings have nothing to do with what(I believe) the premise of the points being there in the first place are, that is to show the improvement of those vehicles over the course of the year or over the history of the class<---(singular) that a vehicle runs in. There were so many more open records to run on at the begining of the decade that the top 30 were unrelated to showing(even if there was) actual performance increases over time. And truthfully it was more of a challenge to get points over your opponent then it was to get a record since there were so many that hadn't been ran on. The points were changed to be based on a record that already existed rather then an open record(hence the shortlived sandbagging era), and the knoweldge that a car would be able to sandbag lower then a bike(still never proven), which helped lock in the decision of two points championships per year.
On the other hand(speaking of differences and more related to this thread), the organizational differences coast to coast(that were so appropriatte imo and took many years of development), will no longer be so distinctive this year, and they are becoming ever closer to each other as the powers that are move forward.
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Agreed!
Todd
