Gee, Bill. Why do you think nobody built one of these before? Duh. I say that if there are even 5 A3 Golfs run next year, then it's a good thing.
Lesley, you can ask that question about a lot of cars. Some of them are just dogs in the class they're in. People build them because that's the car they want to race, and they really don't care where they are in the field.
Being a VW guy, I'm always happy to see more VW's at the track (maybe, one day, VWoA will see how many people want to race VW's and will step up and start doing some performance part development), if the A3 Golf is at the top of the ITB heap, then no, I don't think it will be a good thing that there are any of them out there.
Consider this, the A2 16v Golf in ITA weighs 60# less than the 8v version in ITB (2220# vs 2280#). And this is a car that makes 18-20 more hp in stock trim (123hp vs 103-105hp). Either the CB screwed the pooch when they set the weight on the A3 Golf when it was classified in ITA, or it should probably be given some lead on the move down to ITB.
I honestly don't think that people would be building these cars if they didn't think they were going to be a top-dog car in ITB.
And this somewhat relates to Andy's comments about me not trusting the 'system', or having any faith in it. It surprises me that people are willing to put so much trust in a group to
subjectively class and spec cars, when they don't have a very good track record at doing it.
And Andy, you obviously know exactly how I think (I'll whine no matter what), so I guess I don't need to post anymore. BTW, you don't know as much as you think you do about me. I just want a system that's internally consistent, gives everyone an equal chance, and makes efforts to eliminate the opportunity for favortism (or at least the perception thereof). But, I guess there's about as much of a chance of that as there is of VWoA actually supporting the people that race their cars!
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