We then committed the time, effort and money needed to basically rebuild the car to the specification that we had agreed and there is a not an inconsiderable amount of work involved in this, not considering how much money it costs. To then have the rug pulled out from under you when you turn up to your first meeting is something, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating in anyway in saying this, that leaves me very unimpressed.
Crash.net Radio:
You’ve obviously had to get the car to fit the regulations that you were given and that the organisers expected it to run to from a power-to-weight point of view, so how do you feel this situation has been allowed to develop? You’ve done what you were instructed to do, but now everything seems to have changed without you being consulted on it.
Simon Scuffham:
I’m utterly amazed that this is supposed to be professional motorsport and this is supposed to be the pinnacle of British motorsport. It’s one of the top series for UK motorsport and I can’t believe that it can operate in such cavalier fashion. We have done everything that we asked to do and had it all agreed, we had committed a lot of resources and effort to doing the job and I can’t believe that someone can then turn round on a whim and make a knee-jerk reaction to what is, if you read the letter, conjectural rhetoric. There are no hard facts in it that are relevant.
Crash.net Radio:
That in it itself must be hard to take that the letter contains facts that aren’t linked to the actual car that you are racing this year, yet the decision has been taken based on a car that you and Ian Stinton aren’t competing with.
Simon Scuffham:
For the benefit of those people who haven’t seen the letter, they are quoting two lap-times – one for the Silverstone International layout and one for
Brands Hatch Indy circuit, for what they are saying is a Prosport. The implication of that is that if the car was driven to its capabilities, then it would be as quick as a GT1 car. There are two problems here. The first is that the car they are quoting, the first time at
Silverstone, wasn’t a Prosport. It belonged to Michael Christopher and I think it was a Rapier. It used to be built to what were
FIA SR3 regulations which I believe are now LMP2, and was a carbon fibre, open-topped, Nissan engined prototype – and my god yes it is fast, but it isn’t a Prosport.
