Originally Posted by
Andy Bettencourt
I think you have to understand something. The DC Region ITA has one of the best prepped and best driven cars in the country. The mid-pack battles are what you are seeing up front in a PT race. NOT neccessarily from a driver-skill level, but from a prep standpoint...
ALL driven by popularity. As soon as a BimmerWorld, Speedsource, etc decide they want to dominate their local PT class and win the Championship, you will understand what Kirk's definition of 'competition' is. It's NOT about 10 good drivers driving mildly prepped cars in a tight pack (like some of our SCCA historians will tell you were the good ole days of IT), it's about ONE guy, ONE team, or ONE company deciding that they are going to run every rule through the X-Ray machine and build a car to win, then pair it with a driver who can extract what they need. Then the price of tea in PT goes out of the reach of the 'average Joe'.