Street tire index class designation

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Street tire index class designation

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With the addition of "Road Tire" index as a supplemental class for 2012, can we now use the national RT designation in place of our regional SK?
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What ?! Are you selling Class Letters. :D
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Actually, I'm trying to not have to buy too many.
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I think the bigger question is do we change our SK classes to match the drivetrain separation of the national classes? I think to use the same letters, the classes would need to be the same.

I don't see those changes happening now that the year has already started, but what do I know?
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At this point, my understanding is the RT classes are supplemental and could be nixed if enough people don't show for national events this year.
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All this RT stuff does seem to be coming at the last minute, but the announcement posted that RT is being added as a supplemental to Nationals gives a valid reason to change.

I'm just figuring out how much alphabet soup I need to buy to get through the year.
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I'm tired of all this class stuff. I vote for 1 class, no indexing, run what you brung, winner take all. Leave it to the course designers to come up with something that favors no particular car :lol:
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Rick, as long as we have to drive it to the event, I'm all for it!
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Rick Brown wrote:I'm tired of all this class stuff. I vote for 1 class, no indexing, run what you brung, winner take all. Leave it to the course designers to come up with something that favors no particular car :lol:
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Steve Lepper wrote:Rick, as long as we have to drive it to the event, I'm all for it!
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Stick with SK. RT is supplemental and subject to change.

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Thanks to all for the input.

I think I have everything but the K, so this weekend's classing might have a bit of a ransom note feel to it...
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