370Z street touring class ?

03threefiftyz

It's one in the same, the 350 is winning...why would you bring in a 370z, which would completely kill competitive balance in STU. The evo guys are alredy bitching to no end. I still think the C5 is the car to have in STU, but Brian Peters is in the class (in a 350z)....so that's that.

stuy486

Totally agree, seems silly to me... If they're not going to have them in the same class, they should at least have the 350 in STR and the 370 in STU. I'm guessing all the MX-5 and S2K guys threw a fit when Brian won at nationals last year in STR.

03threefiftyz

Classing is based on the top "potential" of the car. The assumpiton of performance is always what the best of the best could do in relation to other cars in the given category. BP is a top 5 driver in all of solo and a very approachable guy. It has not been my experience, outside of a very few, that these top guys are assbags...

Agree on the C5's being the car.

The STAC moved the 350 to STU, the SEB had nothing to do with it. The 350z is seen as a competitive balance with the rest of STU, the 370 is an unknown and they fear it as an overdog. Feel free to write in, but you will get every single SCCA member with an Evo/STI in America writting in opposition.

The 370Z DOES have an advantage over the 350z in a few areas, namely power, which is the fear on 18x11's with 285's. You want to get bumped, build a rulebook car, put a BP level driver in...crush the s2k's/MX5's and get their support for the move. That's what happened with the 350z. There are a whole lot more s2k/MX5 owners than the Evo/STI guys...

stuy486

Haha, I like it.