[/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 }:)