Cripes, does this have to be so complicated? The SM guys take a lot of crap from IT guys some days, but take a look at what they did on the East coast (at least) w/ SM vrs SSM. Lots of cars that drive in two races per event. Why? Because they can.
Why is it such a hard concept to ask if a car can run one class higher than it is currently classed w/ no changes except a digit on the class lettering? The XXXXX that is currently classed in ITA at XXXX pounds wants to go run in ITS. Let him go do it, no changes made, no requests made. If he shows up the ITS guys, oh well, they ought to be faster. If he's slower than snail dung, again. So what? So is the guy who's limping around out there on 3 out of 4 spark plugs because he needs to simply 'finish' a race. We ain't nascar w/ so many entrants that we turn people away.
This helps car counts, costs the CRB nothing, allows more people to do more racing. It helps the guys in the Shelby who don't want to race w/ B guys. If the ITR guys want to do this, so they move on to either ITE or SPO. How do you lose?
In the northeast we see a lot of 1.8 SM cars that go run in either ITA or ITS. I met a guy who entered the same car in SM, SPO and ITS in the same double race weekend. He got in 5 races in two days (didn't stick around for the last run group on Sunday). In other words, with the right car, it is already possible so why fight over it.
Might was well bicker over something more interesting and useful like what's the best color to paint your car.
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