With a clean sheet of paper, if there is a choice between fitting a car in two classes, I prefer to go for the lower class, if it appears that the cars ability to make weight will be difficult.
When people try to get cars to aggressive minimums, they have to spend extra money ($1800 9 pound CF seat instead of a $700 FG version, etc), they will look at the cage and remove bars they feel are surplus, and they will have to go spend money on hardware in lightweight forms over more readily available common forms (steel).
The net net is that the car might get close, but the expense is way up, and the safety might be compromised.
(Yea, I know, can't play the safety card, the GCR describes the cage we need, so all else is gravy)
But, if the car is put in a lower class, none of those issues arise.
However, a heavier car can be rougher on it's gear. Tires, brakes, etc are used up faster. In some cases it makes little sense to pile on pounds and make it slow, in other cases, it does. (The Honda Prelude is a good example of a car that really didn't want to be in ITS as the weight it needed to be there was just too great and caused all sorts of issues...most feel it's a better fit in ITR)
So, we have to look at that as well...where does the car "fit" best?
Also, it's very hard to move a car across the border between B and A...thankfully thats not the case here.
With the 944, we have good knowledge...lots of guys have built 944s, and the power is documentable, so the weights it needs to be in either class are pretty much nailed.
So the question boils down to: The process says it can race in A at 2850 or so, or S at 2575.
-Will it destroy itself at 2850?
-Can it get reasonably close to 2575?
Questions I DON"T see as relevent:
-"Will it damage ITA?" No, not if the process is followed.
-"What about the XXX?? If you move the 944, you have to move the XXX". No, the XXX is a seperate case, just like the 944. Make a case for XXX and we'll look at it on it's merits.
-"You're making ITA into ITS". Disagree...if the performance envelope remains the same, the class is the same. The process will ensure the performance envelope remains the same.
In the end, the club exists to give people a fair place to race, and needs to create scenarois where people WANT to race. It's no good to move cars around if people don't want to race where they land. If that were the case across the board, nobody would race. This is a case where the process might say the car could race in either class. Which will bring more cars?
Maybe the answer is to class it in both, and let the market decide.
This brings up the Dual classification issue, and questions will arise like, "IF you DC XXX, then you have to DC VVV and ZZZ and WWW and.....". As it stands now DC is being applied very sparingly and only to cars that have been moved up a class. (ITS to ITR) Maybe it's time to look at DC and create a set of parameters that define a DC process, so that DC can be applied consistently in the future.