Street tires in IT? My Review

[gran racing]

Interesting participation numbers (on the SCCA.com site) since we’re talking about that…
ITR 248
ITS 947
IT7 255
ITA 1354
ITB 601
ITC 219

For a total of 3626. The vast majority are from the North East and South East. Any speculation why IT isn’t nearly as popular in other areas of the country?

SM 3148
SRF 1891
FV 649

I’d say IT is still very relevant.

[pfcs]

regarding dumping the block prep and running stock motors: my vision would apply to new/modern cars classed in B&C; rules for engine prep would remain for legacy cars. (although I for-see how an allowance [weight] could be made for stock engines, I don't see it working too well because many cars as currently classed can't lose any more. Move a B car to C might be possible for them but everything [obviously] depends on the community)

Regarding wheels: If I still was running my Golf, I sure would run the 28 6x14s I had, sty least until I saw a significant advantage of changing.

"I’d say IT is still very relevant."
Agree! The point is to keep it relevant-those who don't see how challenged it currently is have there heads in the sand.

[jjjanos]

Interesting participation numbers (on the SCCA.com site) since we’re talking about that…
ITR 248
ITS 947
IT7 255
ITA 1354
ITB 601
ITC 219

For a total of 3626. The vast majority are from the North East and South East. Any speculation why IT isn’t nearly as popular in other areas of the country?

SM 3148
SRF 1891
FV 649

I’d say IT is still very relevant.

Need to look at the % of entries in each division. If 100% of the entries in MidDiv were IT, their car count probably still would be dwarfed by the NEDIV IT entries.

[dickita15]

For a total of 3626. The vast majority are from the North East and South East. Any speculation why IT isn’t nearly as popular in other areas of the country?

One of the major factors has been that in parts of the country that have less racing most of the races were Nationals. NE and SE have always had more regional racing than national racing. If I lived in the flyover state I never would have got an IT car. There were not enough chances to race it.
Now with Nationals gone and the new world order being Majors and Divisional Championship events which IT is eligible the bias may change a little, but I imagine it will take years.

[gran racing]

Ah, thanks for the explaination. Interesting.