tommcgeer
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Donnie CARS has never considered Production GT as an entry level class. In the past, entry classes were Production Sport, and before that Production 1750.
In the Board's manner of thinking, entry level should be the least expensive class for someone expressing an interest in rallying to become involved. In other words, buy a car, put in the safety stuff and go have fun.
We have tailored the rules in P2WD to this end so that one can be competitive right out of the box, hopefully in a variety of cars (ie Golfs, Civics, Fiestas, even Fiat 500s!). If you catch the bug, the next step would be to move up to higher performance classes, such as Open 2WD or the 4WD classes.
Production GT (and now Production 4WD) has always been a higher level of competition. If you're going into this class, then you are going to be spending more money and effort to be competitive. Tires, parts and fuel are significantly larger budget items, let alone the cost of the car. In the old PGT rules, to be competitive, one needed to by the latest spec Subaru or Mitsu. The new P4WD rules, with their updating and backdating clauses, now allow more mixing and matching. This will hopefully lower some of the costs to competitors in this class and make it an attractive option to many competitors in currently in Open.
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