The "development" of Historic Racing Cars discussion Post Spa 6Hrs 2013.

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The more one thinks about it the more one surely comes to the conclusion that few non-club racer owned cars out there in Times Historique stayed the same for more than a meeting or two at a time. Maybe only a race or two.

Most F1 cars had quite significant alterations between races and the same will have trickled down through the professional and semi-professional plateaus.

There were a few pre-war and the odd post war racer at Angouléme last weekend that had a patina suggesting the age of decades. Whether that would have been true under the metal skins one would have to doubt. Most regularly run Historic cars probably do far more in a season now than they would ever have been asked to do in a working life in period. Things move on. Not necessarily for better or worse. They just move on.

Maybe there are certain clearly controllable and well defined classic configurations that can be fully monitored but in the main and on balance is is probably better to have a few people spending a fortune to gain a second here and there sometimes than it is to have cars in invisible storage locations.

But in the end it is all a game for the competitors and the spectators and other interested parties, whether one or two bus loads strong, will have no voice and probably would not warrant one.