Well, they got my class straight as well as A & B, but I'm pretty sure C is still a little off, but that's not my fight.
While I will agree everyone should have number plates, I've got 2 issues:
1) It's Portland, which is the first race of the year and a LOT of people were there that had never done this before. I know it's in the rules and all that, but they don't know that, and making a big deal out of it on the line isn't the answer and may just alienate our new-comers. A subtle reminder will do and I hope that's how it's handled at Battle Creek
2) If number plates are required (which I totally understand and in the absense of helmet tags, I agree with) then we need to have them available for purchase. Electrical tape will make some perfectly readable numbers if you put it on a new white number plate. I have already decided that next year, if no one else is going to, I'll bring some to Portland 1 myself, and I might even have some for Battle Creek just to be sure...
Like I said, I don't disagree with any of what was said, I just hope they don't get real nasty about it on the line because they have once before and some friends and I went out and had full kits made up with front/rear and fender numbers that cost us quite a bit (because no one was making such a kit for the IRS quads yet so we had to pay a local graphics guy to make them) and 2 races later some new guys showed up who didn't have numbers all year and no one ever said anything again...
-Walt
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