MARRS ITB/ITC say hello to ITS

[Charlie Broring]

Bill, the ITB/ITS mix works well at many tracks. If ITS runs away from ITB it works out great. However last time it was done at Summit it was very frustrating to the ITB drivers due to constant interaction between the groups. I looked at MARRS 5 results from this year and over half the ITS field is running ITB lap times. Maybe those guys will speed up a few seconds by next race and stay away from the ITB front runners. I guess we will find out.

Now, Jeff's comments on how this change occurred show the frustration of an unexpected reshuffling of our race groupings mid season. There is some history to this. Last year the ITS and ITA drivers representatives tried to move ITS into ITB mid season. They announced the proposal in advance of the meeting and the Competition Committee wisely rejected the change, which it turns out was a good move. This year there was no discussion of this change during the race weekend just 2 days prior to the meeting. The surprise tactic seems to have worked out well for ITS. Well, sleazy politics has been known to happen in Washington DC before...