[Personal Opinion]
Sorry if I offend, but as has been documented on this site before, in my opinion rotary-engined cars do not meet the philosophy of Super Touring Light. This philosophy is not based on potential performance of a particular model as it is with Improved Touring; in other words, we do not evaluate how the car may perform and then stick it into the appropriate class. Further, STL allows some limited amount of intake mods (i.e., cams) which the rotaries cannot do, and we will not allow Street Porting in STL (that's a Prod mod). So I personally do not agree that they should be included in the class.
That said, we did offer something of an olive branch to the ITS and ITS rotaries when we classified them a couple seasons ago, and that was absolutely based on their potential performance. Since we allowed other 2L-and-under ITA and ITS cars into STL as-is, and given the ITAC's implied opinion of relative performance of those cars versus their piston engine peers, it seemed "safe" to allow the ITA and ITS rotaries into STL as well.
Not so the ITR cars. Because of the potential performance of ITR cars such as the Type R and S2000, we specifically exclude otherwise-eligible ITR cars from STL (and specifically excluded those two engines from STL). Those cars are invited to compete in STU if desired.
Yet in a fit of a double-standard, we allowed in the 220hp (?) Renesis. We debated the RX-8 inclusion in STL last year because of a request to bring the car in ("some place for the Touring cars to play"). After significant argument we tossed the engine into STL at 3080 pounds (after RWD adder). And, because the regs originally allowed "stock or" brakes, the RX-8 came in despite having larger-than-class brakes. I opposed that engine into STL, but I am one of five committee members, and I was out-voted. And, unsurprisingly, that car won the STL Runoffs race. We have since re-adjusted our regs to require brakes within class limits (no more "stock or") and also to limit tire sizes of all STL cars to 225 section width (Nov Fastrack). But, at the same time, we also compromised and adjusted the Renesis' weight to where it was in 2012 (Dec Fastrack).
Sorry, but that's the way it is, and no amount of argumentation and whinetation is likely to change my personal opinion on the matter... - GA
[/Personal Opinion]