[Vegas69]

I was only at the event for a few hours but one of my first impressions was that the days of a pro-touring car winning are likely in the past. In all honesty, this event needs to appeal to the masses for it to continue. I think they realized that pro touring couldn't support this series. Pro touring is a relatively small group of people. Another observation was the huge amount of sponsor support and small crowd. I'm sure SEMA played into the decisions for these vendors to show up, but there was more vendor support than you see at big events in drag racing, etc..

This event is a luxury for all involved. Build a nice car and if you get invited, wear a smile and go out and have fun. You aren't going to win.

If you want to win, build a corvette and have lots of talent.

I told Greg when I saw him that Mark's car is the epidemy of pro touring. To me, many of the others are just glorified race cars. Build what floats your boat, I don't have a problem with it. But for me, I'd want what Mark has for a street car or a purpose built race car.

It's going to be tough to come up with any rules for this event. The cars are going way to FAST. When you start taking away race car strategies, you end up with a less safe event. It goes back to the run what you brung and look at it as a luxury to me.