On the FWD IT Process issue...

1. Comparing production-based cars, FWD is dynamically a disadvantage on the race track - that's established physics and engineering (applied math and physics), not opinion.

2. The influence of that factor varies with other factors - some that the Process can't control for (and don't TRY, like weather), and one important one that it does consider (power).

3. Given the above, it was desirable to come up with a way to take FWD/RWD into consideration.

4. As has been demonstrated here to good effect, any guesstimates from the crowd are going to be disputed by someone else, so an external, unbiased, math expert was called in - Bosch Motorsport Engineering and their LapSim software.

5. LapSim was not used as part of the Process (as has been incorrectly stated around here). It was used to establish cut points for the IT classes, using estimates of the upper and lower HP limits likely in each, to arrive at the percentage deducts codified by the ITAC.

6. We knew that, like every other aspect of the Process, it was NOT perfect but it met alll of the policy requirements in play.

Talk about weather, "real race cars," and all the rest just muddies the water.

K