I'm looking at the SCCA Solo2 classes, and trying to make sense of them.
Consider HS, which seems to be a catch-all group for slower cars.
You have some slower cars with their little front drive fours, like my CR-Z
You've got big cars with little engines, like a BMW 7-series with a six under the hood
But, you also have "Mercedes, NOC" in HS.
Now, anything AMG won't work for this. You can't just go SL65 AMG. AMG NOC puts you in SS. And several Mercedes cars are explicitly classed, but it looks to me like one could run a SL600 in HS, as I don't see SL in the classing.
There is a newer model, but this is a $25,000 car right now. Yes, it weighs 4500 lbs. Yes C&D recorded but 0.88g on the skidpad. But it still brings a twin-turbo V12 with just shy of 500hp and a peak torque 590 lb ft at 1800 rpm. It does the quarter in the high elevens, 0-60 is around 3.6 seconds. And you are allowed modern sticky tires to replace the decade-ago comfort-oriented tires from when this car was tested.
It's classed with Priuses and Yarises. I know it's heavy, but wow, that's a different car.
My question is: NOC - really? If I arrived with this car at your club and claimed HS, would you let it run? Flip side: pushing two-and-a-quarter tons of car betwixt the cones - is all of this horsepower so irrelevant that it is properly an HS car?
