Mark-
Thanks for the reply and encouragement.
I am reading both rule books- looking for the things that are common to both, and the things I may already have on my car (currently prepped for Solo STX class). I understand that you can run ITS in BMWCCA JP, but not the other way around! I'd like to keep my flexibilty by not doing anything that would make me illegal in ITS, fully understanding that I'll be giving up a lot in the Prepared class. As a rank novice, I'm not worried about being fast for now.
I live in NYC, which, as far as being in the Northeast, has pretty good access to tracks - I'm 2-1/2 hours to Lime Rock and Pocono, and NHIS, Watkins Glen, VIR and Summit are all within 6-ish hours. The BMW clubs are pretty active up here, as is SCCA, so I will have many options for racing, budget permitting.
As for the license requirments, the big difference for me is that I can do the BMW events in my street car, while I'm building it, instead of having to finish the car first for an SCCA school, or rent one at $750-1000/day. Of course, if I could free up $4k for a Skip Barber school I'd be done in a weekend!
I'm sure the SCCA runs a better event than the BMW club, and my goal is eventually to race SCCA predominantly (who doesn't dream of ITS National Champion 2010? World Challenge 2011?
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-Pete
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