noahfleming wrote:
Brett_Murphy wrote:
Are RT and ST the same thing?
Nope!
RT = Road Tire (previously TIRE Class) This is a PAX class, such as NOV.
ST* = Street Touring * (STR, STX, STU, STS, STC, STF, etc). These are Open, none PAX classes.
I'm not sure if it helps or hurts to remember what we had 15 years ago:
STS was "Street Touring, Street tire"
STR was "Street Touring, Race tire"
...and I think THSCC had these classes for a couple of years before the SCCA made them national classes.
STR went away for lack of participation. (If you want to race your street car, why do you want to put race tires on it?)
Around 2001 a certain guy tried to get THSCC to abolish the TIR class, because the SCCA wasn't using it. (Yeah, that's a good reason...)
In 2006, at the Pan-Am region of the SCCA, some d!@#head decided that Street Touring cars could race in their TIR class...another bozo trying to get rid of TIR, in this case by sabotaging it.
In summer of 2009, I'd just divorced a b!tch that tried to keep me out of autocross, and I didn't have a "U" to go with my "ST", because I hadn't raced that car before. I thought I could just put "ST" on the car, and surely nobody would be confused.
Then, come to find out "ST" is actually a class now, and instead of explaining it to me, some little twerp protested me. (It could only go down that way at an
SCCA event.
)
Now, the SCCA made a version of our TIR class... Tell me again why we should copy them?
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