Good question, Earl.

Prior to the 2009 season when ITR was placed in Big Bore, T3 ran with ITB/ITC/SRX7/SS. Of course, there had been no T3 cars running in the MARRS series up to that point (maybe they didn't like the grouping ). When the groupings were realigned, T3 was moved to the new ITA/SRX7 group and we had one regular driver. At times a second driver, a rookie, raced but placed himself at the rear of the grid in order to watch and learn.

That regular T3 driver usually finished a few car lengths ahead of the ITA winner in both 2009 and 2010, running what should be two seconds or more off the pace of a front-running ITR car.