Quote Originally Posted by tnord View Post
I'm getting really sick of hearing this from people, especially in this division. I'm going to lay it out in a not-so-nice-but-honest way. The prep level of the IT cars in this division sucks. What you're seeing is that a couple guys (like Ray Yergler) are finally showing up with a GOOD ITA car, and combined with a good driver (he's a former National Champion HP guy from back in the day) is kicking everyone's ass.

It has even gone so far as to have an ITA CRX guy tell me "the CRX days are over, there's nothing to compete with those 1.8 Miatas, even the SM versions are faster than us." Well I'm sorry but that's becuase your car is a giant piece of shit, and you're not a bad driver, but I wouldn't say you're great either.

Meanwhile, we've got an ITA Integra beating some pretty top-notch ITA Miatas at a track that people admit couldn't be more custom tailored to suit a miata, yet the integra driver still has the gall to say the car is way underweight.

What's really going on here is fear. People are scared that the SM guys are going to bring over their level of prep, testing, and driver skill to IT and up the anti/cost to compete for everyone.

I'm fucking sick of it.
Sorry to get you riled up, Trav. I agree about the level of prep of some of the Midiv cars, but I really believe the fully prepped 1.8 Miatas are making more power than the multiplier used in "The Process". I don't have any dyno numbers and haven't seen any, but has the ITAC?

BTW, the Integra you spoke of, I haven't seen one in the Midiv?