I asked Dave about it, and basically he said that raw times were used instead of PAX because of the large number of Tuner class drivers, and he was concerned about having a number of drivers who were there who wouldn't count for scoring the challenge.
In the future, we can call all W-class cars TSU cars, since they're all legal there and we have a long-established PAX factor. PAX times are every bit as easy to write down and average as raw times are (especially when there are fewer than 50 per day) so I think we can safely say that there is no call for punting the challenge again.
After Sunday I was in the bus and was poking around menus looking to figure out how to plug the event in to the scoring software that I know Mike has written, but have never laid eyes on. Mike, I'd be willing to learn exactly how to do it for next year so we can get complete results on site.
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