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That's totally not what I'm saying, Dick. What I'm saying is, "it may appear that you can just bolt on a few items and go racing, but in the end it just ain't that simple."
Show me one car out there that has done nothing but 'bolt on a few (safety) pieces and raced'. Name one person whose entire goal for going racing is to simply show up and not worry about being competitive. If "entry-level" is defined by perception rather than reality, with that perception being "I just wanna go out there and not worry about racing" then fine, I agree with you; yet any class can be looked at that way. But if reality rules, as it usually does, then it's a terrible disservice to make new folks believe there is such a thing. C'mon and go race - absolutely! - but don't carry any preconceived notions of what's going to happen.
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Every drivers school I go to there are guys making the step from track days to racing in the same car. It really is that easy to go racing, take your track car put a couple of grand into safety equipment and get out there and learn to race. I can show you these guys Greg but they are way back on the grid with me. You only see them once a race. Ironically there seem to be even more of these guys in ITS than in ITA.
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But to claim that Improved Touring is more or less "entry level" than any other SCCA class is, in my opinion, disingenuous. - GA
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That is what I am claiming and I have been rightly called a lot of things but rarely disingenuous