I should have been more specific in my last reply, as I am in full support of adding a 80cc senior Shifter class in the Road Racing lineup, and 80 senior shifter racing in general, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Also, what James said:
It would be awesome to see this class grow. Both in road racing and sprint racing. Im verh excited to see what @CrocIndy can do with this package and see how popular itll be on the sprint racing side.
Im all for this class as it puts more people in shifters banging gears. I cant wait to see how much it can potentially grow with proper promotion in the sprint racing community. Hopefully itll make its way to road racing.
Xtream Rock Island Grand Prix has added SIRA’s 80cc program for 2025. This makes sense from so many perspectives. I’m not a racer but I can’t tell you how many people have told me they won’t go from 100cc to shifters because of the physicality, learning to steer one handed, braking, etc. (OK, and engine rebuild costs). Yet lots of racers want to shift. This offers an option either as a step up with cost controls or just another level of racing at a lesser cost than antipnal shifter races. If you want to try it out, welcome to Rock Island (or any of the other tracks listed)
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just out of curiosity, why isn’t there a 100cc shifter engine? it would seem to be the perfect middle point between TAG and 125cc shifters.
the 116 Supermini moto engine would be more logical, imo, as it’s what the MX market gravitated to. But it’s too close to the 125 market and a good bump in power above an 85… For historical reasons, I’m very glad the 80 was chosen. It’s a perfect conversion level class.
Never attempt to apply logical thought to karting org class decisions. 
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