AWD in Improved Touring

[StephenB]

I don't have much input as far as classification but I sent a letter in suppport!!

S-Type idea on hold... what do you think the wife would say if I gutted my x-type

Stephen Blethen

[lateapex911]

I don't have much input as far as classification but I sent a letter in suppport!!

S-Type idea on hold... what do you think the wife would say if I gutted my x-type

Stephen Blethen

She'll say, "You better leave the heater core attached otherwise you'll freeze your ass off driving to work!!!"

[cjb25hs]

I am in favor of the idea and will send a letter. There are alot of great cars out there. The Subie 2.5rs would be an excellent car, I would think that it would have to be and S or R car though. Although is the thought process to add a new class say IT4 that all of the AWD cars could play together in?

[JoshS]

Although is the thought process to add a new class say IT4 that all of the AWD cars could play together in?

There aren't enough non-turbo AWD cars to make a class just for them. One class for just the Subaru 2.5RS and the Audi 90 Quattro? (Okay, and a couple of other Subarus and Audis). Makes no sense.

[Greg Amy]

Back in "the good ole days" SCCA used to toss all current-model cars into SSGT (Showroom Stock GT) just to give them a place to play and to see HOW they'd play, without causing a ruckus among SSA/B/C. Then, once they've had a chance to see how it worked out, they'd move them into another SS class appropriately.

Same idea could be used with AWD and ITR.

[lateapex911]

Back in "the good ole days" SCCA used to toss all current-model cars into SSGT (Showroom Stock GT) just to give them a place to play and to see HOW they'd play, without causing a ruckus among SSA/B/C. Then, once they've had a chance to see how it worked out, they'd move them into another SS class appropriately.

Same idea could be used with AWD and ITR.

And they used to do it with ITS too. The 1st gen car was an ITS car initially. But I wonder if that time hasn't passed us by. Maybe I'm cynical, but I think we are part of a "me" generation. Everyone wants a trophy. Well, not everyone, but you know what I mean. Somebody just posted that we need many more spec classes and that mixed marque racing was soon to be history. We know that we don't see a lot of porsches for a variety of reasons, but when I talk to the P car guys, I often hear, "I like racing against Porsches only, at least that way I don't have to worry about other types of cars getting a better deal". Not many of us tilt at windmills or 'fight the uphill battle" (Jeff Young: noted exception!)

Simply, if we did it that way, would anyone bother building one, knowing that the future was really uncertain? (What class, what weight, etc?)

[ekim952522000]

Greg that to me would be throwing the whole process out the window, I say class em with the process with a "as determined by the ITAC adder" and call it a day.

[RedMisted]

...Somebody just posted that we need many more spec classes and that mixed marque racing was soon to be history. We know that we don't see a lot of porsches for a variety of reasons, but when I talk to the P car guys, I often hear, "I like racing against Porsches only, at least that way I don't have to worry about other types of cars getting a better deal". Not many of us tilt at windmills or 'fight the uphill battle" (Jeff Young: noted exception!)

Simply, if we did it that way, would anyone bother building one, knowing that the future was really uncertain? (What class, what weight, etc?)

I love mixed marque racing, be it club racing or track trials. I get a chance every now and then to humiliate the effete P guys with my coarse knuckle-draggin' backy-spewin' beer-swillin' girl-chasin' red/white & blue-wavin' rednecked Mustang. And a V6 at that.