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Jeff, I've had the *exact* same experience, in my case it was 5-6y ago... It's the curse of a nice active region, there were basically 50% GT3s and a few GT3RS in the fast group. Doesn't matter what you drive, if not the above you will be spending the majority of each lap doing point-bys. Which is "fine" but very distracting and takes away from the experience really (unless you enjoy being a d$ck and being shown blue flags). I'm not criticizing the situation, I'm jealous I can't afford a GT3 toy car, but it made me want to go back to the slower group (but that required riding with an instructor again, which I graduated from eons ago).
Made me wish for a different kind of track day where cars are somewhat balanced in separate groups, but I get the logistics of beginners/intermediate/advanced drivers combined with slow/ medium/weapon grade cars is impossible to squeeze in a track day. It gets even more complicated with old cars that are race prepped or 991 turbos in the hands of barely competent people. I think it could be done by time and grouping people who are within 5-10 secs of each other in a group, but PCA for one discourages timing...
I have stopped going actually - between the arms race which I was clearly losing, and getting up at 4am to drive to a track and pass tech at 7 AM only to actually get on track at 10, track days have lost much of their appeal to me.
Historics is not the solution either, a good friend of mine does that, he's already had to redo various fenders many times on his 356, they are maniacs compared to PCA DEs - it's expensive !! (and the oldies are starting to blow up more, metal fatigue I guess)
I'd like to find a group that accepts single runners (graduated from instruction) and attempts to group them by skill/car level, and also trusts that you did your homework on the maintenance and doesn't make you show up at the crack of dawn to recheck your lug nuts... Guess that's why I'm on the Xbox a lot more with a nice rig and Project Cars 2 instead...
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