NAMBA VOTE - Official Results!!

[Darin Jordan]

NAMBA has officially posted the following vote results on their website:

The following are the For/Against results for the recent rule change proposals:

#1 Approved 82/49

#2 Approved 83/47

#3 Approved 85/45

#4 Approved 83/47

#5 Approved 82/47

#6 Approved 120/15.


What this means is the following:

Length Limits are now official (Proposal #1):

N2 and O = 27" Max
P = 34" Max
Q = 40" Max
S & T = 60" Max

Lipos are now legal officially for LSH and LSO, as well as N1. (Proposal #2, 3, 4)

Official race lengths (Proposal #5) shall be:

i) For N1 and Crackerbox, the race distance will be ½ mile which is 5 laps on 1/10
mile oval, 4 laps for the 1/8 mile oval, and 3 laps on the 1/6 mile oval.

ii) For all other Hydro and Mono classes as well as LSH and LSO (if run on an oval),
the race distance will be 1 mile which is 10 laps on 1/10 mile oval, 8 laps for the
1/8 mile oval, and 6 laps on the 1/6 mile oval.


Finally, Proposal 6 passing means Classic Thunderboat has been officially added as a new Gas class for NAMBA as well... That's just COOL!

Racers now know what to build... Vendors now know what to design... AND, IMPBA and NAMBA should now be able to officially co-exist and race together without a conflict of basic rules or allowances... that is provided that IMPBA actually passes THEIR length limits after the trial period is over...

It's all good... let the bickering end and the racing begin!!

--Darin

[Bill-SOCAL]

Wow, I checked the NAMBA site last night around 11 pm PDT and they were not yet posted!!

What really strikes me is how low the turn out was. Around 10% of NAMBA members cared enough to vote!! Very sad.

So are there really only 85 FE racers in NAMBA??

[properchopper]

So are there really only 85 FE racers in NAMBA??

I guess that makes us an " exclusive" bunch of people, eh ?

[PatrickM]

So are there really only 85 FE racers in NAMBA??

No, theres probably about 100 FE'ers who actually voted....

The remainder of the ballots were probably "interference" votes....

[J Solinger]

This is a good sign. Lets get back on the water.

[Fluid]

What really strikes me is how low the turn out was. Around 10% of NAMBA members cared enough to vote!! Very sad.

Usually, fuel racers will abstain from voting on FE issues, just like most of us will refrain from voting on pure-fuel issues. Do we know enough about the fuel issues to vote intelligently? Do they impact us? In most cases, no. Ditto the fuel guys and FE issues. Frankly I'm glad that only affected members voted.

IIRC, pure-FE membership in NAMBA has been around 100-120 for years. The really sad thing was the turnout for the only pure-fuel proposal - just 135 voted versus only slightly less for the FE proposals.


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[Darin Jordan]

The really sad thing was the turnout for the only pure-fuel proposal - just 135 voted versus only slightly less for the FE proposals.


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No doubt... and I know for certain that several FE guys voted on that one GAS proposal because they were building Thunderboats themselves...

We'll never know, but it would be interesting to see the breakdown... FE vs. Nitro/GAS, and by District...

Oh well... Like J. Solinger said above... Let's move on and get into the water!! We know have defined guidelines to build to for each class... Let's do it!

[Bill-SOCAL]

I guess what would really be interesting to see is the number of actual individual ballots. Just the total. It is odd that the vote totals for the FE proposals and the vote total for the gas proposal are all very close. +/- 130 to 135. An odd coincidence to be sure!!