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Originally Posted by foshjowler
To have multiple cars +/- a second of each other, I view as successful classing. Certainly better than things currently stand in STR and STX, which are both one horse races..
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If you're saying it's within a second faster, OK you're probably in agreement. Nobody thinks it's more than a second faster, if it was it would be competitive in STR.
I think the part that you're not seeing is being "within a second" is an enormous amount of time in autocross. If all you needed to do was be within a second, then we could put every ST class together into one big ST class, they're all within a second of STX. Go on a pax calculator and type in a 60 second course and see for yourself (only one this doesn't work for is SST but that's because SST pax is too hard).
My general educated guess is that the NC and new twin are maybe 3-5 tenths off of the ND2. And s2000 and ND1 are maybe 2-4 tenths off of the ND2. When they put the ND2 into STR, how many of those other cars that are all within half a second do you see in STR anymore? It will be the same here when the gen2 twin and NC are put into STX and they'll have the same 3-5 tenths time gap over the gen1 twin. Gen1 twin will only be run by locals who are not trying to be competitive nationally if it happens. And STX participation nationally will tank, at least for a little while.