Originally Posted by
Greg Amy
You're looking at it completely wrong. It is BECAUSE of this nit-picking, and BECAUSE of this parsing and argumentation over the regs that Improved Touring is as attractive a class as it is today. It shows passion, it offers reasonable debates over the regs, and leads to clarity in regs that makes the category better.
And best of all, it demonstrates to competitors - especially new ones - that the Improved Touring community is damned serious about the regs, their meanings, and enforcement of the same.
Want people to not argue over the regs? Want us to all "just get along"? Then go race in a category where there are no serious regs, or even worse, where they are arbitrarily ignored, created, and/or enforced by fiat (see ChumpCar, LeMons, etc).
Despite the fact that Andy's wrong, this kind of debatatation is the lifeblood of Improved Touring. There's a reason the category's been around and as stable as it has been for over a quarter century....and that reason ain't "random".
GA