I feel like we keep explaining this but that people don't listen...
I understand from people who were there, that the 142 was one of the "bogey" cars for ITB at the time of the great realignment. Other cars were adjusted TO it, BASED ON EVIDENCE OF ON-TRACK PERFORMANCE in the years prior to tGR.
I'm strongly of the suspicion that some of those observations were of cheated-up Volvos being more competitive than they should have, were they legal (e.g., VIR track record set in 2002 - 2:22.6). Over the years, the culture of IT has gotten less tolerant of cheaters, cheater cars got parked or tidied up, and the Volvos are stuck with a weight based on bad data.
Only one way that "on-track performance" is a flawed measure of how "right" a listing might be.
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