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Originally Posted by Dean
Can you believe STS got easier? I needs me a 89 Civic Si..
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I think STS hasn't really gotten easier so much as the rest of the cars in other classes have gotten faster.
I think we're finally at the point where a to the limit STS Civic isn't competative to an at the limit STX WRX. It used to be that same Civic could win both classes, but that's only because there was so much more knowledge about how to make a Civic fast in autocross terms. Now that the WRX has been out for a while, it's caught up, and it's making use of the additional allowances in STX.
The same goes for other classes... newer cars like the EVO, STI, WRX, Cooper-S, S2000, etc didn't have the same development behind them that cars like the Miata and Civic have had. I think it makes sense, now that the new "crop" of autocross cars has matured, that we're finally seeing the STS, STS2, CSP, ES and FS cars PAXes come down compared to the classes that tend to have the newer cars in them.