[Jeff Higgins]

I remember many years ago attending an ALMS race in Portland, OR. The guest announcer was one Brock Yates. During a lull in the action, he mentioned that the fastest "GT" class cars were not on the race track that day, but rather in the spectator car corral. He went on to explain how the governing body intentionally kept the GT cars at certain prescribed lap times through their season on season rules changes. He explained how they had witnessed the on-track carnage increase dramatically when lap times were allowed to dip below a certain threshold in that kind of car.

This was probably 15 years ago, at least. GT cars still race one another at about the same pace, while their road going equivalents have gotten ever faster and more powerful. Like I said, we have crossed some sort of a threshold. One that is scaring off even seasoned PCA DE instructors.