Please say it's a rumour!

[GrahamJay]

I heard that that the new rules for recent driving test passers is that they have a limit of 1.1 litre engine!

Now to me this seems stupid and more effort to change than it's worth!

Please tell meit's a rumour otherwise my racing carrer goes up sh*t creek without a paddle!

Cheers

Graham

[Leadfoot]

Honda blackbird engine is 1100cc

[JohnL]

Why should it affect your racing career? You're not planning to race on the public roads are you?

[mondeoman]

JohnL said: Why should it affect your racing career? You're not planning to race on the public roads are you?

No he's not, but if he can't get a decent tow car .........

[dougal]

Diahatsu Charade GTtI pretty nippy, can't tow though. Whats going on with this country/Europe.

[JonRB]

I think its not a bad idea to limit a recent passer.

However, as the Japanese K-class (keijidousha) cars have shown, if you show an engineer a limit he'll find a way to go round it. Witness the turbo nutter K-class cars of the 80's with superchargers, turbochargers, intercoolers and fairly loony specific outputs getting silly bhp out of the 660cc maximum allowable capacity.

Personally I think under 25's who have just passed their test should be limited in some way, but by something harder to abuse, like power-to-weight ratio and torque-to-weight ratio.

Of course, I'd rather see compulsory advanced driver training, but you've got to be realistic here.

[jvaughan]

mondeoman said:

JohnL said: Why should it affect your racing career? You're not planning to race on the public roads are you?

No he's not, but if he can't get a decent tow car .........

Girlfriend has a Suzuki JImny 1.3 ...... excellent tow car .. has pulled a few TVR's off the tracks and out of the green stuff on quite a few airfield days.

[M@H]

"its a rumour"

[Podie]

M@H said: "its a rumour"

Can vouch for the Suzuki Jimny. Hired one on holiday... 1.3 and took it off road (up a mountain) even had to use first on the low ratio box! Left the Jeep that was following for dead... pretty good off-road!

Bonus was the canvas back and sunroof... plenty of fresh air!

[roadsweeper]

Matt said:

"its a rumour"

It was only a matter of time.

[dcb]

I heard that that the new rules for recent driving test passers is that they have a limit of 1.1 litre engine!

Isn't it the case that new drivers are practically limited
by how much the car insurance costs ?

Why is why new drivers start on bottom of the
range Fiestas & Novas, usually 3rd party fire & theft.

Mind you, given that new drivers are responsible for
more car crashes than other drivers, this does make
some sense.

I note with interest that some insurers are now giving
one years NCB for new drivers who have completed
a Pass Plus course.

Looks like the market place doing what the Government
should have done years ago. Better driver training.

[sps]

I think that this makes a lot on sense. Look at the motorbike regulations , they are much stronger and they have worked.
It makes no sense IMO to allow some one who has just past a test to jump into the likes of a 911 or TVR.
It's just plain stupid!!
There was a case a few years ago when some rich kid passed the test and daddy purchased him a new 911 turbo. Young man lost control , crashed and killed some poor sod!!
The insurance issue does make it harder for young drivers to own high performance cars or just not bother with insurance at all.

[kevinday]

Re: Suzuki Jimmy. Absolutely no use as a tow car for a race car on a trailer because it is way too light to do the job. Remember you need a car heavier than the towed weight.