For those who have forgotten, in atlanta in 2006 February race the spec tire rule was removed due to a rule descrepensy and done so by the SOM, another thing to look at is that I can assure you appilation tire would not just stop selling a tire unless their was a reason, (they're in buisnees to sell tires of which they purchased the franchies to do so), please also look at the fact that no one during this whole process went to toyo to get a guarantee that there would be a sufficant amount of tires for this class as spec miata learned in its early attempt to create a spec tire rule. Given these facts the som had to act on the best choice for the members of this class. Another thing to take into consideration is that this rule was also presented to the competition board on the fact that there would be track support for the tire by a franchies carrier, and easily available. Rather than grip and or complain lets find a way to resolve this by contacting your adhoc committee members, regional executavies, and other IT7 drivers to come up with a temporay fix. As I under stand this is a tempory shortage, and lets be alittle more receptive to those who race the same type of car not just through them into another class remember IT7 can be removed as a class altogether. WE need numbers to keep any class going look at GT4 and GT5 now GTL. Remember if this temporary shortage turns into a extensive shortage there will be no IT7's due to this tire rule and based on this we all need to come up with a solution for not just these current events but future ones as well.

Concerned IT7 member & Adhoc committee member for IT7
Kurt A Jackson Car #00 & 59