Originally Posted by
seckerich
Many of the current IT cars are going to age out just like the foundation cars of Production. The 12A motor is on its death bed already, and many of the most popular IT cars are getting harder to find factory parts for. This thread is a good place to bring out some ideas with some light hearted posts. What I would like to see is some input on a 10 year plan for IT. We say that rules that require removal of items add cost for all because you HAVE to do them, yet newer cars have more and more of these banned items.
More and more drivers are selling other cars to join IT because of cost and the number of opportunities to race on a given weekend. We need to continue to be the most attractive option for new racers and old.
On a larger scale, I wonder: "What's it gonna be like to be a car guy in 20 years?
Cars are now made standard with tons of driver-assistive devices and other "pleasure" features and accoutrements. I expect this trend to accelerate, given the regulatory environment's tendency to increasingly overstep its bounds, and society's ever-expanding love of the lawsuit and seemingly latent desire to behave more and more like inanimate objects.
I'm thinking that if I'm still going to be racing IT, I sure as hell don't want to construct a newer car that will cost me extra $$$ to gut, because of all the Mickey Mouse equipment that the automakers installed to make driving a sedentary activity. But if driver aids have a future in IT, I'd rather go race Production or Factory Five or something where I dictate my OWN fate, not some damned computer.
I think if IT is going to survive, it needs to set a strong precedent that driver skill will ALWAYS be a part of its overall philosophy. But I could be wrong in this assumption. The IT drivers of the future may be such a coddled species that they may find the idea of racing without electronic nannies to be an inane concept.
Not trying to go too far off the track, but just had to get this off my chest....
Last edited by RedMisted; 06-17-2009 at 03:00 PM.
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