Yes, the host region saves money by making it one sanctioned event rather than two. We get some serious grief about it (mainly from guys wanting to get credit for four races toward keep their National license), but the ARRC is one sanction number regardless of how many races you enter.
Also, the ARRC is not part of any series. All the divisional series (SARRC, NARRC, MARRS, Mid-AM, etc.) are over by then so we are a stand-alone event (sort of like Notre Dame football? - but I don't want to get started on that).
When the doo-doo hit the fan earlier this year over our original proposed groupings (mainly ITA & ITS), I floated the idea of ITB/ITS and ITC/ITA. The ITB & ITC guys really preferred running together rather than having to watch their mirrors, so we ended up with ITB/ITC, ITA/IT7, and ITS/TCC (we'll replace TCC with ITR for 2007). I understand that Todd needs to put all the IT cars into three groups rather than four plus M-O is a vastly different animal than Road Atlanta, so maybe the slow/fast combination can work better there. For the forseeable future, however, the ARRC will continue to group classes of similar speeds together.
Butch Kummer
Butch Kummer
Former SCCA Director of Club Racing (July 2012 - Sept 2014)
2006, 2007, 2010 SARRC GTA Champion
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