After looking at the Pre-Entry numbers as of 5:00 yesterday afternoon, I have submitted a request for the following changes to the ARRC by GRM schedule:

. Move DP, ITU, & SPU into Group 6 (with ITR & ITS)
. Move ITT & SRX into Group 3 (with ITB & ITC)
. Group 10 (FE) now becomes Group 1 for all Friday sessions

What this means is we won't have 79 single-seaters on the track during Friday's qualifying sessions and all FE sessions will be stand-alone. Both of these are good things.

The negative, of course, is that Groups 3 & 6 will now be more "cluttered" (27 & 17 cars respectively), but both are still smaller than all but one group. I'm not sure why the ITS guys are staying home in droves, but I don't need to figure that out right now. Right now I just want to put on the best event we can for the people that are coming.

This is not official until the SOM approves it, but I have absolute confidence that will happen. I will update this post when that approval is received.

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10/25 - The RFA has been approved and the websites should be updated by this weekend. I'll also be sending the new schedule to all affected groups via e-mail this evening.

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See ya...

Butch Kummer