Rceron

Curious as to major differences. Mostly weight? Heard that the winner of the recent race at VIR ran a 2:03.8 on R6s. Sounds very impressive.

Ken89911T

I think the J class is a stock class, that is, not "prepared". Lots of changes can be made to the car except drivetrain, basic body, etc. Lots of J class racers have "enhanced" their cars with suspension, and other mods, yet the car remains classed as "stock". Weight limits are published, along with the so-called "free" mods (none of which are free) in the Club Racing Rules on the PCA website http://www.pca.org/Activities/ClubRa...singForms.aspx

Rceron

Thanks. Will look at the link you provided.

LVDell

Ray, the "lettered" classes are stock AND prepared but depends on what mods the driver does. The car slots into a stock class and is given a list of things that are allowed to be done on the car. Then there is a small list of additional items you can take advantage of by moving up 1 class. Two "classes" of cars would slot into J.....Those that run J "stock" and those that run J "prepared". J prepared would be those in I that took advantage of both the stock class rules and the prepared rules.

Honestly, they really need to change the name of the classes. Calling them stock is a joke. Running gutted interiors, full cages, remote canister Moton's, Hoosier slicks, LWFW, beefier ARB's, monoball everything, , wider wheels and tires than stock, etc, etc, etc.

Rceron

Interesting. Well, I don't think I need to worry about this for another 3 -5 yrs I guess it puts things in perspective though.

ukrbmw

Wow - you can do all that in Stock class??? Although, how much competition is in that class...

Rceron

I believe it's still in its infancy. thought I heard there were 5 cars in the June race at VIR. 3 or more cars in the 2:05s or less.

LVDell

There is rarely anybody in J so I would have to say that it was an anomaly that there were 5 entrants in J for VIR. Especially with the overall attendance in the toilet. I sold my GT3 for that very reason and picked a car to run in G. At the time G was typically the second largest group in the stock classes behind the always well attended E class. "Racing" against 1 or 2 (or especially nobody else in class) isn't racing. Sure, you can mix it up with cars in other classes. But why? It's not for class.

For the VIR race.....Sprint 1 had 5 drivers with drivers 2-5 a lap or more down with fast lap of 205. Sprint 2 had 4 (2 of them DNF) with fast lap of 205. Enduro had 2 drivers with fast lap of 208. All qualifying was 205+ with only 1 driver breaking 205 (203.8). That can't be any fun winning by those margins. Some of those Specbox groups on the west coast (and central) have had 20-30+ entrants with many guys finishing with tenths of a second!

Everybody has their definition of racing. For me, I can't rationalize racing against those low numbers.

Don't get me wrong, I had a blast on track for the few races I ran and the rush was amazing. But, and this is a big but....when I actually thought (which I had 9 months to do while the spec boxster was being built) about what it was costing me to race versus what I was getting out of it, the answer became obvious (for me). Time to sell. Decided to go back to DE with my weekend car and can honestly say I am having way more fun with the wallet thanking me every single day.

If I go back racing, I will be VERY careful as to decide where to race and what class. I want large numbers with close racing.