And Greg, if IT7 drivers are upset about being moved away from ITA, can't they just run ITA instead? They must fit ITA if they fit IT-7, right?
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Actually, most of the bellyaching I've heard about the split is from the ITA drivers, not the IT7 folks. We have no region-specific rules for IT7....they are simply ITA RX7's w/ different class markings. If these drivers now wanted to race twice per weekend, the scheduling would probably work for them (hint...hint).

Frankly, I'd love to see IT7 eliminated in the MARRS series, but there are too many people that worked too hard to bring it about, even if the ITAC cleaned up some of the inequities just as we were putting the class in place. I'd love to see the 30-car average ITA fields that we had just three years ago, but some of the reasons why the RX7 drivers wanted a separate class have not been fulfilled yet and the new class has done three things:
  • Bring drivers out of retirement
  • Bring cars out of mothballs
  • Bring new cars and drivers to the region
And those a very good things!