On the other side of the coin you have the "hey, if we just had a class for (fill in blank) we'd get tons of cars". And then we don't. We should think long and hard before we add classes. Does it ADD cars and drivers or just chop the field into even smaller slices? If we're not adding drivers then adding classes is counter productive.
I think it is unlikely any ITC cars can lose much weight, if any. I'm 100# overweight now. 50 of that is driver, and maybe I could get rid the rest if I really cared. But not much below that.
Maybe I shouldn't say this, but it is possible for most of the ITC cars that run in GLD to become ITB cars. The hondas can switch to fuel injection, the renaults can go to 1.8 motors I think. Not sure about the Jetta. We haven't seen the Fiat in a while.
Here's where I'd like to see some planning. If you said ok, in 4 years you're gonna have to move. We might be ok with that. Especially if you did something to grandfather the cars in. I'm pretty sure the hondas can switch pretty easily, but if there is some difference in the 1.8 renaults or the Jetta, maybe you waive that if it's just something cosmetic and not a performance difference. I don't want to spend $1,000 to move classes, but 5 years from now it might have to happen no matter what.
We might not be leaders in ITB but as long as we get to race, I think we'd be ok with it. The biggest danger for us is that we'd get broken up in a move to B. The great thing now is that have 5 cars that run within 1/2 second without hitting each other, plus several right behind that. Lose that and we lose a lot. If you run 8 drivers out so you can add a class of 2 cars, that would not be good.
Jim Hardesty
ITC 1986 Honda Civic Diablo Rojo Verde
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