Agreed, and it's not just because of the inability to get closer, but because of the variety of tracks, and the individual strengths of some cars vs. the strengths of others. What wins here loses there and vice versa........in a perfect world.
Now, if you really think that you are spec'ed too heavy, then indeed you NEED to go to the ARRCs, and other areas and tracks and run against the best, AND put every last effort of development into the car possible. And, encourage your friends who run the same car to do the same. Might have to share secrets to prove a point.
Proving your car is too heavy is a little tough...you need numbers on your side, empirically, as well as results-wise, just to get the attention of the boards. Then you need those numbers to be obvious...like Pierre Kleinubing drove your car, at the ARRCs lets say, and you had every last trick part and tweak on it, and you paid Real Time to prep and set it up. Pierre gets creamed all over the track, gets out at the end, and said, "Thees car is a peese of sheet"!
(The famous corallary to this is the not exactly true story of how the Accord got moved from ITB to ITA....Randy Pobst supposedly drove it at the ARRCs and cleaned up with it an *PooF*! it was in ITA!)
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
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