When I first read about the project WRX car, I think I was in Topeka, and I speculated 'hey, there's our "free" WRX'. But my opinion was not based on fact.
Kevin, you have the right story about why we turned it down. Subaru was requiring us to carry a huge insurance policy, we were not going to be able to use it for competition, and only certain people would be allowed to drive it (you had to be over 25 y/o, for one thing). We thought we could use it as a pace car for the 2004 Double National at Thunderhill, or for demo runs like at lunchtime at our Solo II events. But because it was going to cost our region more to insure it than we won (we won $750 I think, but it was going to be several thousand dollars to insure), we voted to turn it down. However, Dave was still trying to communicate with the SCCA National Office to see if they would help us with the cost. When we were in Topeka in September, he had a personal audience with Garrett Mudd about this; but I have not heard that anything came out of that. Oh well.
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