NO REGULATIONS. What's the closest racing has gotten?
Can-Am, and it always just turns into a spending contest.
>>28520994 (OP)Probably hillclimb. There are obviously safety requirements but you're allowed to run as much power and as much downforce as you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FmKgPtKZI
>has a free thought
>gets banned
Bonneville.
The only limitations are safety regulations, engine displacement, fuel type and some classes have rules regarding body modifications mostly Production Class and the various Gas Coupes, which is just to keep people from multi-classing without changing the car.
There are no power restrictions, no vehicle restrictions, just classes for them to run in, there's even a couple unlimited classes which are mostly streamliners.
Land Speed racing is the final boss of grassroots motorsport, anyone can compete. There are records for mopeds out there I am not kidding, last year some Youtuber from I think New Zealand set a class record for a front wheel drive Solex supercharged moped using one of those Wish.com superchargers and he was the talk of the salt the whole week.
You can run any car you want with any engine you want and any aero modification you want, you just have to figure out what class it fits into so the record can be made official.
>>28521038And the big reason I said Bonneville, is because it is the most accessible, anyone can race. You don't need big sponsors or a huge team to race, the world's fastest wheel-driven piston engine car, which is the car in my first reply, has a total crew and footprint smaller than a NASCAR team, everyone on the salt working on that car can fit in a short school bus and that's one of the bigger teams for Speedweek, some of the teams out there are a few guys who drink on the weekends together and got drunk enough to convince themselves they could slap a big turbo on their Camaro and go race Bonneville, pic related.
>>28520994 (OP)Group B in times of old, hillclimb is pretty free
iirc LMP is basically F1 without the restrictions
Otherwise its anything setting a land speed record - only regulation there is really just make sure the pilot is alive at the end.
>>28520994 (OP)>What's the closest racing has gotten?NASCAR back when it was redneck moonshiners hooning around a dirt oval.
>>28521128That's clearly an alternator
>>28521081>Group BIt's based on Group A regulations with a few small changes with the major one being the homologation requirement going from 5000 to 200.
>>28521087I heard someone talking about Smokey Yunick, before he raced in NASCAR the rulebook was a pamphlet, after him it looked like a phone book.
That red bull car from Gran turismo