I like the idea of pre-classing some of the more popular, newer cars that would fit in IT. I'll have to admit that I didn't know you COULD ask for a car to be classified until I started reading this board. I would suspect any person new to the SCCA would just look at the cars classified and figure that's what you have to choose from if you're going to build something.
Having said that, I don't know that having more cars classed would entice more people into IT. Conventional wisdom says to buy an already prepped car your first time around. My guess is that it's usually people that already own a race car or have previously owned one that are building new cars. They probably have a good idea of what car they want to use and know how to get it classed if it isn't already.
I'm not sure how IT gets new recruits. Racing isn't cheap. IT is cheaper than other forms, but still takes a decent amount of money. I'm guessing the market of people that want to race with sufficient funds to race is relatively small. So it would seem that the idea would be to market the strengths of IT to entice people to race in IT over other categories. I thought the post about the differences between racing in SM and IT was interesting. The number of different makes in IT seems to lend itself to better racing in a way since each car has different strengths and weaknesses. I don't think that's something people would think about if they were comparing a spec series to IT. Things like that could sway a person one way or another.
That's my $.01 anyways. I'm not sure it was worth a whole $.02.
David
ITA 240SX #17
Atlanta Region
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