Seein as none of the other 12" crowd have chimed in on this I guess I'll be the first to toss in my .02$.
If there's gonna be a 1550 lb weight restriction and performance restrictions on drag motors then who cares what mid you're running??
As has already been said, if you take to much weight outta the ass end your gonna mess up the balance point of the boat. If want details on this, ask me, I'll tell ya all about it!!
At this point the only boat I know of with a 12" that may run lake racer next season is Mikes 15R with a 2litre (and in that case the 1550lb rule should be reviewed, JMO).
Archer, RBT, Gieger, Archer 2.0 (driver tba), myself and hopefully whom ever buys my red/white & black 01 will all be running outlaw.
There's only a handfull of 12" equipped lake boats other then those listed above in the immediate area that would come out to race and most (if not all) would end up in outlaw anyway.
The important thing to remember is that we can adjust the criteria as needed.
If we need to change a rule to make for better completion within a class then that's what'll happen.
......and for those that want to bitch about double elimination and only getting to run 2 passes each day all I can say is....stop whining and shut the fuck up!!
My first year at Jasper I ran 2 passes for the entire weekend. The second year was 2 passes each day. This after 2 days driving down to be followed with 2 days driving home.
The experience & knowledge you gain from loosing (usually from those that beat you) is invaluable as you move forward. Eric said it very well about 10 pages ago.
Now....let the discussion continue.
Ooooh, Bad Banana Manbeast, you had me at ,"....stop whining and shut the fuck up!!".
Me too 
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Have been kicking the idea around of taking the lake boat out of her with that $et up, which will also need a Geiger Tech light weight string steer to go with that 12 incher 
