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Originally Posted by Flash68
Not forgetting... it's the growing # and quality of events, and the desire to place well or win at these events that is driving the direction more than individually chosen goals.
It's a fair question, but more and more people are answering "race car" with their parts and tuning choices. And there's really nothing wrong with that.
Hell, we all know tons of nice PT (non-race) cars that can but don't get driven hardly at all except on a track or autoX. And maybe that's where this niche is slowing gravitating toward... cars that run on tracks and appear to be pro touring cars, but don't actually do the "pro touring" thing?
Seeing cars like Brian's car and Mike Maier's car kick ass and look and sound like they do will surely make many want to follow that direction. They have inspired me that's for sure.
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You are misunderstanding my direction here. My point is, you don't know what you have until your project is on the road. Not everybody around here wants a rowdy race oriented car and may not understand the difference until it's to late. Clearly you are about as far to the race side as could be. I talked to Matt Alcala last weekend and he said he would rather move more towards the other end of the spectrum and his car is far from rowdy. Everybody has their own idea of their perfect pro touring car. But do they have the experience under their belt to build it?
In regards to Mike & Brian. When Brian and I sat down we talked about this whole deal. I personally prefer these type of cars and I'm glad they have joined our group. It's just not possible to compete with them in a car like Blue Balz. My point was that Blue Balz is an awful nice pro touring car to turn into a race car. If that's what the owner desires, then so be it.