so i was at a trackday at PIR this weekend and saw a bunch of these. anyone know much about them, i read through the icscc rules and they seemed kinda vague as to what was allowed. they seem like an inexpensive (in racing terms) way to get into racing. anybody have any advice/experience with these?
-seth

 

See this document...
http://www.icscc.com/rules/CR2005b.pdf

It looks like it's designed as a low budget class, but even low budget racing can cost a lot of money. I used to spend about $10k a year racing a Spec RX-7 and that was a pretty shoestring budget in what was considered the cheapest class at the time.

 

They're pretty quick cars and there's a good number of them in class. From what I understand, there was enough people racing Rabbit's in the usual Conference classes that wanted to be able to do things outside of the structured rule set, so they started their own class. Check out the rules and talk to the drivers for more specific information. Post a question on the drivers forum at http://www.icscc.com and make some contacts.

Good luck.

 

awesome, thanks for the info guys. will deffinatly check that stuff out.

 

Club Rabbit is indeed a derivation of the H Production (or G, maybe?) Conference rules, that grew out of the popularlity of that chassis in the mid-late 1980s. I don't know for sure but I'll bet that Skip Yokum helped write them.

The "bunny brawl" was almost always the best race of the day at a Cascade or IRDC race, with lots of passing and good racing. Most of the entrants were friendly, too and they generally had really good attitudes. No wonder it was attractive.

The rules - I'm surprised - have actually refrained from any goofy stuff, with the exception that they are based on the carb'd cars. That's a function of the age of most of the chassis in question though, so that's how it is. In the final analysis, while nothing is truly cheap, there's no reason that Club Rabbit shouldn't be just about as affordable as they come.

K

 

One of the quickest and best prepared examples has been for sale this season for around 5k. Look at the 6th ad down the list. http://www.icscc.com/ads.html

It is great class and car to have loads of fun for real cheap.

Rick