Originally Posted by trilerian

To me it isn't anywhere near as exciting as my favorite class which is 21.5 TC. Add to that, I can't give the class the focus it needs because I spend that time working on my TC. Basically, a second car for me needs to be a put it on the track and run it car. I have plenty of time during the week to go through the car and maintain it, but track time is mainly spent on my TC. Another thing to add, the SJT rubber tires seem to be slightly inconsistent from batch to batch. I have ran a brand new set of tires and was instantly 4 tenths faster, almost foam tire speeds, for 1 battery. Then put another set of brand new tires on and the car was undrivable. Hmm, maybe more... I am driving a completely new car platform, the A12, support for that on rubber tires gt12 is pretty low. There is another guy at the track who just started running one, but he so far is only making changes I suggest. Eventually he will start tuning, but this is more of a novelty class for him as well. Racing multiple classes when you only have six or seven heats can be taxing when you have to make changes, or fix something, since you spend 4 of the heats racing or marshalling.

The reason I started racing it was to try to keep 1/12 alive at our track. We used to run 13.5 1/12, crazy fast on a small track. Then we dropped to 17.5, then 21.5 fixed timing (bore fest there). But it is hard to get new people into a class where you have to have a tire truer and cut new tires all the time. When rubber tires where announced last year the few guys who run decided we would try gt12 on rubbers this year. Myself, I had sold all my 1/12 stuff early last year. I was done with the tire cutting and buying new foams all the time. So I agreed to run gt12 so they would have more people. But now, I am kind of feeling done again. I'll most likely stick it out for the rest of the season since we only race through the end of March. But next fall I may not run the class anymore.

Hopefully that answered your question.