A lot of those guys in the A and B finals are also locked into sponsorship deals as well, so its not as easy as jumping into the latest and greatest.

I read through the Snowbirds thread and Jason Schreffler who won the 13.5 TC rubber said that all the speedies were the same in the low to mid power stakes but the Tekin had it in the high speed areas. On tracks like the Birds and also ETS tracks they are too small to allow the Tekin to stretch it's legs and he made a comment to that effect.

It will be interesting to hear the opinions of the Aussie guys who go over to the TITC as the straight there looks long. At the birds and similar tracks they are doing 10 - 11 second laps, thats like running a race around the coffee table in my loungeroom lol.