[/quote]RT classes are brand new for the season locally. We need to give them a chance to succeed or fail on their own merits. Combining them before the season has started is saying they are a failure before they've even started - and if you come into it with the idea that it will fail, then it already has. Wasn't that the whole argument against even having street tire stock classes in first place? While I understand the desire to prevent orphaned drivers, I feel we're making decisions for something that hasn't even been given a chance locally yet just to make sure one or two drivers don't feel left out of competition.
Reread CPM - it allows for groups within CPM to have their own class if they have enough drivers. I happen to like having more competition than the minimum to be a class. I won a CSP jacket with I think 4 drivers. It is a jacket, but it doesn't mean as much as a jacket in a class with 10 drivers and winning. Winning in a class of 4 or 5 just means you showed up more than somebody else and had OK times.
Nobody is asking to horn in on RTR (or I think not) but if you look at the last event the top 6 spots had two RTF and 1 RTA. Maybe the idea of combining all RT is a threat to the RTR crowd }:)
If that was the case, I would have gone C-Stock only a long time ago. 
I think Ken and I just want someone to interact with while we're running. It's no fun to sit in grid and not have someone to compare times with, talk crap to/about, encourage/discourage, etc. While I will enjoy running with Max by myself, running with others makes the experience more fun. Yes, I *hope* RTF will thrive, but given that fact that it's wrong-wheel-drive when it comes to sports cars and that the folks who drive FWD rice rockets tend to mod the hell out of them, the reality is that there just aren't that many eligible, competitive stock-class FWD cars out there. I personally think that separating by driveline was a mistake, but it's what we're stuck with and it's better than not having road tires at all. So locally, why not have a Plan B and let RTF and RTA run together, even if they end up making class at the end of the year?
