For 2007, the first year for ITR, we’ve been racing in group 1.  I had originally hoped that we’d be in group 5 with the rest of the IT classes.

Well, the San Francisco Region has decided to move us to group 5 for next season.

This is good news, in my opinion.  Group 1 primarily consisted of ITE and ITX.  We were faster than ITX but stuck amidst the slower ITE cars.  Now, we’ll be among the fastest cars in the group, so I’ll have a reasonable chance of being on the pole of the entire group!  And since our cars are also legal for ITE (although not competitive there), this means that we’ll be able to do dual entries, and race in both group 1 and group 5 in the same weekend.

Anyway, you can now look forward to some different scenery in the in-car videos for next season.

All three clubs where I could race have announced their race schedules for next season (here are the links):

• SCCA
• NASA
• BMWCCA

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One thought I’ve had, given how hard it is to leave home for a long weekend, is to find a way to do more races at Laguna Seca and Infineon (which are only about 90 minutes from home), and fewer at Thunderhill (which is about 3 hours from home.)

Only way to do that is to skip the SCCA races at Thunderhill, and instead, do some NASA races at Laguna and Sears. I’m a long-time SCCA guy (been a member for over 19 years!) and really consider the SCCA to be my club, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t partake a little bit in the competition.

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