emilio700

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1. The reason people wanted into the supermiata series was because of he parity, not because it allowed turbo Miatas. Turbo Miatas can run anywhere now.

2. We gave up and turned it into SGT. People still didn't show up, including you

icantlearn

1. I wanted to race SPM because of how good the racing was, I cant even drink legally yet, so the party is not entirely what was attracting me. If I want to party I can gather up some friends and we can all hang out in the garage and chat about cars. Me, and many other people want to go door to door with other good drivers. Again, this is very evident with GLTC.

In response to parity, I agree, the parity made for great racing. However id rather have a lack of parity for the initial kickstart of a series than watch it dies out. The cars that are lacking pace will find pace in due time, but at least they are out there racing.

2. I would have showed up to S1 and SGT if I my car was race ready. I just got my cage put in beginning of may due to scheduling. So unless you would have allowed a car that wasn't caged to race, it wasn't gonna happen. Trust me when I say watching all the race videos from you, Andrew, and William made me frothing at the mouth to get out there. But I just cant magically make that happen in an instant.

emilio700

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Sorry it didn't work out for you George. We ran the series for 3 years. Had 6 cars built at its peak but only one event where they all showed up. The rest of the time it was the same 4 cars we started with. Maybe someone with time, skillset and a few bucks to promote a similar series can start something like SGT (open platform). SGT legal cars still get to run in the SSC run groups at Speed Ventures weekends, there are just no trophies, points or anything. Just another opportunity to do w2w outside of NASA, SCCA, BMWCCA, VARA, POC, et.al. So SGT isn't dead per.se, you can still race, just no podium champagne.

Your understanding as to why GLTC is successful is incomplete. Its successful because it is so heavily marketed. SGT is almost exactly the same format, has zero marketing so no one knows/cares about it. Also, SGT is an open platform ruleset. I can guarantee you if a midwest shop owner created GLTC, with zero media and marketing, it would be about the same success as SGT. Again, sorry I didn't have the time, energy or budget to put a big marketing campaign behind either S1 or SGT. S2, which became SSC is doing well.

Spec classes form something like 30% off all club level wheel to wheel racing. SRF, FA, SM, Spec Boxster. Drivers and teams are attracted to the promise of parity and close racing, whether it actually exists in the class or not.

MX5 cup cars are boring as ****, but there is media attention, TV coverage, huge contingencies, driver ladder, real sponsorship opportunities.

It isn't about the car, never was.