It's fun poking fun at other people's cars.
I'd like to add some more stuff here to help advocate for more Formula cars at our events though. II would like the folks in P?A and others to consider putting the FF's at least into a class with more participants. I see the deadline for rules changes so will try to submit something and show up for the meeting.
It's a good thing to encourage these cars. I didn't start out in COM with any intent or desire to own these types of cars. I started with an SSC Ford Fiesta in '78, before that a few schools and an event in a BMW 2002 around '73-'74. I had great fun with this and SSC while not very fast had great people and competition. The grass started looking greener in ST3 and after re-investing about the original purchase price of the new car I was ready. Much more fun ensued, including events at hillclimbs and Bridgehampton etc.
Things were going fine, but it was expensive developing the car and the parts were only sort of available. At that time someone in COM had brought up a FF, was running it but had it for sale for $3500 - a Crossle 16F, really a beautiful car looking like a 60's F1. ( If you drank a lot maybe

). At some point a conversation was had and an offer to take it out for a couple of laps was given. I was only curious, really.
That car was sold before I had travelled more then a couple of hundred feet towards the pit-out. To use the modern phrase: omg. OMG! During that first 200 hundred feet it became clear that this was a car that actually worked! It was just a pussy cat. Comfortable to sit in when moving, your whole body is supported. It was an effortless driving experience, and that was still in the pits. The steering was light and direct ( and fast ). The brake pedal was so solid it felt like there was a brick under it. He engine, being stock, was tame. No rough idle, no difficulty pulling away from a stop. I stalled it once the first time I let out the clutch, but they're probably geared for close to 60 or 70 in first.
On the track it was just amazing. Clearly it would take some time to get up to the limit of the car. I knew the track well, but wasn't able to push it right away. I did scare myself going in a little hot and decided to clamp on some more brakes and hope it saved my ass. What it did was just about stop the car before I even got to the turn. I had never experienced anything like that in a street car.
Now I am dusting the cob webs off after the car has only run twice in about 20 years. Sadly it needs updating and replacement of parts. I spent $80 for a new master cylinder and another $40 for calliper seals (x4). I also had to clean the points with a little lacquer thinner on a piece of paper. By my recollection I get about a year out of a set of brake pads and several years out of the disks. I probably have a lifetime supply of half used brake pads now. These were weekend replacement items on my street car.
For roughly the same money I went from competitive in the slowest car class, to competitive in the fastest class and occasionally won an FTD. The car is better then my driving and likely at this point always will be. The car connects to it's driver so well that I had a serious brain fade at one of my first events. My Fiesta was fun but this car connected to me and consumed my mental effort so totally that I became aware my jaw had gone slack and my tongue would hang out during turns! I kept closing my mouth and it would just be hanging open again by the next turn. I realised later this meant I was way over committed.
I don't want to grind an axe here, but I know how much effort people put in to their cars. Sometimes it burns you out. This is an option that will let you enjoy more driving and less wrenching.
Oh, the wrenching is so much more pleasant with a car up on sawhorses! No bolts under the car. I stripped the car to bare metal once. Every nut and bolt on the car fits in the bottom 1/3 of a small coffee can.
Perhaps we can find lap times to back up this change back to the way the rules used to be. Even in the 80's there were P/A cars that could beat me and whereas my car isn't any faster, it would seem some P/A cars would be. I think the original change was driven by some sour grapes and occurred after I stopped running the car...
Perhaps these cars are not so available anymore? At the time I ran, they had just created the aero FF's so cars like mine were very available cheap...
My favourite thing is probably shifting without the clutch. It really makes you feel you are in the program when you shift 3>4 next to a street car going for the brakes into a turn and then 100 feet deeper you hit the brakes hard and do a 4>2 shift without the clutch. It's nothing special about me, the car just does this stuff as if it was made for it. Hmmm, I guess it was!
The other big thing is I have always felt very safe in these cars. Fast street cars feel like they are on a ballistic trajectory, there is tremendous momentum. When a FF goes sideways, they slow down really fast. When you hit something, there is no extra weight in the car. It is basically all frame, engine and driver. In a street car, you hit something and there is more then a thousand pounds of bumpers, air conditioners, big batteries, alternators etc. Multiply those weights times the G's of an abrupt stop on a wall and you are talking a car packed with anvils.
Sorry to go on so long...