My understanding is that "original" classification is done with:
"stock HP * % increase in IT trim * target power to weight of the class + 'adders'."
Then the cars performance is reviewed and adjustments in the classification are made for 5(?) years? I would guess that these adjustments would be to correct an error in the estimated
% increase in IT trim and
'adders'. If I have been mislead could you correct me? [/b]
OK Ray... I'll correct you....
The "process" you describe was put in place by the CURRENT ITAC over the past two seasons... The BMW was classified "originally" over 7 years ago. Only just this past season did the ITAC have enough information, process, and CRB support to propose a realignment of the whole of IT to fit all of the reviewed IT cars to the newly instituted "process"... (we tried to get them all, but admittedly missed a few along the way, which is why you'll see more adjustments show up in Fastrack from time to time as we get try to get them all...)
So, the correction to the E36 this season, aka: SIR, was done to fit the car into the process which that will from this day forward be used to classify/adjust cars in IT.
The truely original classification was done via the previous method, which was not a documented, consistent, or otherwise "fair" method.
The bottom line of the current process is that we are working with a basic wt/pwr ratio for each IT class, and the restrictor was put on the BMW to reduce it's power to a more appropriate level in relation to it's current weight. The other option would have been to increase it's weight.
Darin E. Jordan
Renton, WA
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