I'll defer to your expertise WRT NAHCA history. However, it does beg the question of why the newly independent Class Association would go out of its way to implement the (at the time, controversial) Comptip requirement without some sort of factory prompting or legal CYA?

The Comptip rule has no effect on rank-and-file racers. We have them. However, entry-level racers are often faced with a choice of throwing away $300+ on a Comptip or breaking the rules before they even start their first race. How can they not say: what kind of effed up sport/organization is this? Maybe the problem becomes more moot at time passes.

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