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Originally Posted by rogerwills
A few people are pulling entries from Race B due to the change.
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Not surprising, as someone with a 1955 front engined F1 Connaught we know the feeling only too well - why go to all the trouble to be beaten by something that never raced against them in period.
It is bad enough that Bristol engined F2 cars are so highly developed that they are quicker than many F1 cars, but the rear engined cars are totally different (not to mention considerably cheaper!).
Technically they are right in that the rear engined cars did run in the same formula, but it was such a game changing 'innovation' that the front engined cars became obsolete over night - as Aston Martin & Scarab in particular found.
It's the same with Juniors but there are fortunately so many of them that it is easy to split them into front and rear engined - with correspondingly good races.
Unfortunately with the 50s F1s it does not encourage owners of front engined cars to use them, hence the small grids in recent years - which is a situation that this is not going to help.
As you say allowing the earlier leaf spring cars in might make sense but a T51 really is from a different era.
It also contradicts their splitting of the 3 litre grid, those cars all raced to the same formula (and most have the same engines & gearboxes) so why seperate them...