Butch,
You guys have a tough job trying to make racers happy. Whatever you folks decide I am sure plenty of folks will come race. It is great to have leaders willing to listen to the voices of their followers. As with any forum you are getting the opinons here of a vocal few. These few probably have some good ideas. I hope you come up with a nice compromise.
I would hope that when making the schedule that ASM's run group & ITA's run group would be seperated enough so that one car could run in both races. One thing that usually gets me to tow 16 hours is being able to split costs and share a car with another racer. (I know some of the Atlanta guys do this sometimes.) Since we share the enduro it gives two people and one car plenty of racing. If that doesn't work out I WILL still come as ARRC is my favorite race.
I also wanted to address the "blame it on SM" sentiment that seems to rear it's ugly head when SMs are involved in scheduling. Having been in one of the first two SMs run at RAtlanta way back when, I have seen and been there when SM was the stepchild. Even with it's many warts today, it is a great racing success story. Many people who would never road race have been drawn to the sport by the appeal of the class. (I realize some of them we could have done without ) As a past region BOD member, I can vouch for the good side of SM when it comes to beefing up entries. I am not advocating messing up other classes race groups to accomodate SM, but it does make since to try and have a big car count. There is a happy (or half happy) medium somewhere. Before you think I am just taking the SM side, let me say that my plans for 07 are to run ITA exclusively and prep my car for ITA only. (I always liked running with different type cars.)
So good luck to Butch and all the Atlanta officals in solving this puzzle.
Mac
Mac Spikes
Cresson, TX (Home of "The Original" MotorSport Ranch)
"To hell with you Gen. Sheridan...I 'll take Texas!"
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