New Super Touring Philosophy

[Greg Amy]

No, unfortunately. The oldest Mustang eligible for STx is the Third Gen, from 1979-1993.

I'm inferring the date rule is there to restrict the category to later-model cars; probably the same reason Improved Touring did the exact same thing with its "no car older than a 1968 model" when the category was created in ~1985* and then proceeded to never update that restriction going forward...

Coincidental that you should bring this up; I've actually been thinking the last week or so that it's more appropriate to have this date limit rule move forward with time, something along the lines of "current year plus 25 years).Yeah, it'll exclude cars eventually, but if the goal is to keep the category "fresh", it's needed.

GA

* Actually, when the IT category was first proposed in 1985 the date limit was 1970, only 15 years difference. Today you can almost race a car in IT that's half a century old...

On edit: since IT is now allowing V8 engines into ITR, and the first gen was in production through 1973, and since the 1968 carburated 302 put out about 230hp/300tq, sounds like a nice fit for ITR...