As an extension to this type of thinking. In our Porsche club there are similar people, but it extends beyond this. 2 years ago my mechanic and friend won our club championships in his 1986 944 turbo. They hated this so much that they made all sort of behind the scenes complaints and snide remarks around us. Mostly about cheating of course as there is no way apart from pro-level scrutineering to tell just how much boost or what turbo etc you're using. He was using a stock turbo, in a stock Capacity car. He did have chips (whoohoo, who doesn't) and we were running dual port wastegates. That's it. We were equally sure that all was not what it appeared in the n/a world of 911'dom either. In other words what compression were they running and what capacity? What electronics? We had no way of telling this either. Anyway, we then went through our dark period of both trying unsuccessfully to modify our engines using the MID technology with both of us increasing our capacity which we disclosed. Without going into a long and torturous retelling of that story, we failed and gave up. Sean went back to a stock 2.5L from his 2.7L 'experiment' and I decided to continue to try and make a 3.L work as I had so many components for this. However they have never believed that he went back to a virtually stock 2.5L (+Vitesse maf and turbo) and have kept up their snide campaign against him. I recently bought another car as I found a bargain and therefore turned up to my first event in ages last Sunday (merely a motokhana) in a completely stock black 86 turbo. I had entered the car as such and was put in group 'D'. There is only one group lower being 'E'. So I got through a few of the courses and went to check my times and saw that it was printed out that I was in 'A' class. Hmm, must be a typo. So I suggested to the club captain that I wouldn't worry too much about it and just email them for it to be fixed up the next day. He sort of shrugged me off with "Well that's a start I guess". I didn't take much notice of his inflection and went on to point this out also to another club official and the one who put me in class 'D' where I should have been (power to weight). Anyway he said that in fact there had been a bit of a barney about this and I realised that they had talked about me and my car behind closed doors and came to the conclusion that I must be cheating and therefore put me up 4 groups into 'A'!!! Not only had they done this but nobody had the guts to actually tell me. This club is now really run by and for those with the 996, 997, Boxter S, GT3, and GT2's. Essentially nothing else really comes into their radar, unless they think they're being beaten by something else but talent. (This thought doesn't enter some of their power crazed minds either).
So what I intend to do is enter now under the associate class. (We allow members to race with us in non P cars although they're not eligible for the Champs) We have always felt like we're treated like associates and so I will declare myself one and the funny thing is that I kind of think that this will seem right to them!!
Sorry for the long winded story and to be honest it still gives me the $%#^^%$&&TS.
Ps I left before the last course at the M'Khana too as I felt that I was either going to hit someone or at least say something I would regret. Nobody has bothered to communicate with me from the club since and I wrote one of them a letter on Sunday night. I will probably be held in contempt. "How dare an associate write to us"[>:][>:][>:] Oh, and they never accepted Sean as going back to a stock 2.5L engine and he is now in Open R class. That is with essentially modifed 993tts, 997s and other cars on R-spec rubber and he's in his 2.5L car with a Vitesse turbo running about 14psi. They have made sure we can't win the title ever again. Nice club huh???
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