well it's basicly taken the 944 out as a compeditive car. speaking to people that drive them, their big advantage over a 911 is how they go in the wet. now they will have to compete against awd skylines and subies. I havn't spoken to Kerry Luck yet, but he's campained a gts-t, and a 944 over the last few years, and i imagine he'll be pissed too.
IMO it's a kneejerk reaction to Ben driving his car at 10/10ths, and showing what a gts-t can do with some prep (but not much compared to the 911's), and someone having a real crack. Broadbent, and Pye were not driving at 10/10ths, they'll say they were, but they wern't, and it showed when they over-ran a tired skyline. I didn't see them down at straugn in the dark with their car on jackstands working out how to get the car to last to the end of the event. There was only two cat 7 cars in the top 10 of classic.
I'm still going to run my car, but my aim was the top 10 of Classic (ovisly dependent on how much the field imporves by 2011). If the early modern cars pull their finger out, cat 7 will not stand a chance.