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Flynn (AKA Irish Mike) has shown his stripes at the ARRC and many a runoffs and SICs, probably a SARRC championship in there, Chi Ho drives the protege that goes to the ARRC every year (was there this year but popped the motor on friday so went home).
Mike Van Steenburg has to be given due credit for all he's done in the past for IT and other classes. He ran the COTA and RdAtl Majors this year, too.
Ronie and Steve Ulbrik are SIC winners and Steve in particular travels all over the south east, though hasn't done the ARRC.
I could add other names to David's list: Scott Seck (ARRC traveler and well respected ITS driver), Dave Raymon (2x SARRC champ), and a TON of Majors level guys like Jay Griffin, Peter Shadowen, and that guy in the blue and silver SRF that wins everything.
the real question is "why incur the expense of leaving FL to drive against a smaller field?" CFR DOES have great, deep fields, and great drivers but we also have a (I think largely overblown) reputation for cheating. why doesn't anyone get on the MARRS group for not traveling to the ARRC in droves? for many of them it's a similar distance as for many florida racers - but they also have a good local grouping of cars that's closer and thus cheaper to run with.
I think the problem is just the obviousness of some of it that is clearly tolerated or ignored. Having been to Daytona all of twice, it's not fair of me to make any generalizations, but both times my perception was:
1. The cars running up front in the classes I care about/race in or with (ITR, S and A) were legal;
2. But some of the mid packers had some pretty obvious cheats that folks didn't seem to mind: lexan windows with holes, missing windshield wipers and shaved door handles for aero, a carbon fiber trunk decklid, a guy claiming to run a mid 2000s 911 in ITR, and so on.
I get why fixing the obvious stuff isn't really a priority since they do not appear to be front running cars, but at hte same time the obviuos gives that appearance that things aren't quite right down thataway, when in fact they mostly are (especiall at the front of the field).
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