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Originally Posted by exige cup dr
I have given up trying to understand SCCA's reasoning with classing cars. I feel if you had the right race shop that knows the rules, the Lotus 240 S could be competitive in T2, even with the additional weight. But yes, it would be costly.
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Lotus essentially breaks the rules with the very lightweight design. As we all know, the Elise and Exige are really much more supercar and cornering machine than, well, just about anything else out there. And the philosophy of the T-1/2/3 classes is to have basically stock machines out there. And having more than 3 classes for Touring is tough -- as it is, T-3 is still working to get decent numbers because of some of the rules changes.
If you look at the cars running in T-3, for example:
Cobalt SS / Honda S2000 / Mazda RX-8 / Subaru WRX(and Legacy GT)
You really can't class the Exige or even the Elise S into there at stock weights without effectively making it the ONLY competitive car in that class with everything left in its wake.
I believe the new T-2 classing will not be as uncompetitive as 2008, but only time will tell. But there most certainly is a logic to the existing classings.
I will say that obviously I'm more a fan of purpose-built race cars as they offer great performance and often larger fields for significantly less money
Steve