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Brian Garfield
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Location: United States, Maryland, SKCA Racing!
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| Eric Clements wrote: | | Brian Regganie wrote: | | This wasn't a clarification it was a rule change. |
Or not. Appendix H, III, B was not clear about JB-JA transition age. Last year I sent a letter asking for a clarification because "regions are free to adjust the transition age" means a 8yr old could run JA and a 18yr old could run JB if a region wanted to allow it.
The clarification issued earlier this year didn't make it any more clear... More letters written... Now JB=8-12, JA=12-18 is very clear. |
I think you missed something Eric, the below excerpt from the rule book is pretty clear to me, and what it is now is clearly different:
19.2 FORMULA JUNIOR
A. CLASSES
1. Junior A (JA)
a. AGE: 12 years to 18 years
2. Junior B (JB)
a. AGE: 8 years to 11 years
The above may not be the best for every regions' season, and IMO does need a crossover period even for National events, but the bottom line is that for National events, if you're 11, you're in JB, if you're 12, you're in JA. So, this is a rule change, now giving drivers a choice. For regional events, they already had a choice based on the Appendix you quoted. |
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Eric Clements
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Location: United States, California, Alta Loma
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| OK, it's a rule change. A rule change that doesn't change anything. If 19.2 didn't work for you, you when to appendix H and host region let kid run up/down a class. |
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Tom Reynolds
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Location: United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Eric Clements wrote: | | OK, it's a rule change. A rule change that doesn't change anything. If 19.2 didn't work for you, you when to appendix H and host region let kid run up/down a class. |
Right this technically only changes national event age classing. |
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Eric Clements
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Location: United States, California, Alta Loma
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Before anyone says "that's just for regional events"...
Tours/Pros often adopt regional class/rule oddities. San Diego tour runs "IS" classes. LA Pro has "SK" classes and kids outside of the section 19 age range have run Tours/Pros (I'm not dragging kids names into a online discussion, talk to me at nationals if you're that concerned) |
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Eric Nelson
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Location: United States, California, Pasadena
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| I know this is not WKA or IKF. However in both of those rules sets, the "option year" rule allows the driver to complete the season in the younger class, only if he hasn't run any events in the higher class. Once you move up, there's no going back. We have people here going back and forth between FJA and FJB... Yes it's undefined, but doesn't seem logically fair. |
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Joe Ricard
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:13 am Post subject: |
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In defense of the driver going back to JB
It's expected because the SEB at the last minute changed the rules.
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