It's part of the academic conversation rather than an excuse or rationale for how things are, but remember that additional mass has to be accelerated laterally, too.

What you need to do, Eddie is distill your bigger question down to a specific request to the Comp Board, re: the MkI GTI. I'd recommend it be in terms of re-examining the assumptions and calculations used to define its race weight, or something along those lines. On-track performance is immaterial so you can streamline your case.

The ITAC can't simply "un-whack things."

K