Help me satisfy my curiosity please... SLM/PLM Drivers and Teams this is for you

I was looking at rule books yesterday out of sheer boredom between meetings and started noticing that car wise, the PLM and SLM cars don't seem very far off each other besides the obvious engine differences...

I am curious how far off they really are when it comes to lap times at the smaller tracks like Showtime, Citrus and Orlando.

Thanks Guys!

[Imhere]

Sl and PL are the same car other than drive train. Lap times on small tracks are very close on to equal chassis' . The problem is a Pl needs momentum. If they get slowed up by any amount the super will motor by. Very hard to pass a super with a Pl also. you will get position and then get out motored. comparing equal handling cars of course.

[Circledude]

Gary is right on, if a PLM can run by itself out of traffic they can run as quick as a super on the short tracks. Seen
this at our local track PGS many times.

[Phil Jacques]

Almost sounds like the Pro Stocks we have up here except they took and separated the two divisions down there.

[Circledude]

Our track at one time combined SLM, LLM, & crate LM cars with difference in weight. Got a lot more cars instead of each class running 8-10 each on certain nights. Also the money was a key racing for $3,000 to win and $400 to start. But unfortunately that didn't last long because due to certain factors with track mgmt. You would think someone could figure out a way to combine them with weight differences that was fair but it seems everyone wants to run in their own class with less cars for less money. In my opinion all the tracks here in Florida run too many classes anyway. Six to 8 different classes a night, should be able to combine some for more car count for better racing. I'm from Ohio and we ran 3 tracks a weekend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with the same rules. Each track ran 3 classes only Late Models, Hobby stocks, & mini stocks. Different track owners but under the same racing association. It worked real well. It was nice to go to the racing banquet and get 3 points checks.