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[Garfield]

Four words: Local Doesn't Mean Squat.

I regularly set Fastest Stock TD in my '99 Miata. Any National driver can drive an H Stock car faster than most local Corvette drivers.

D Stock is the first traction class coming up from the bottom feeders. To say that a WRX doesn't compete in D Stock has to be considered, BUT, has a power AND traction advantage over G Stock. And, it's the winning car in Pro Solos.
The Celica GT-S, RSX Type S, and Cooper S ALL have great power to weight (especially the Celica's HP), but none of them have any way to put it down coming out of the turn.

The only way I see the Cooper S competing at a National level in Solo II is if all courses were about transitioning.

Last month, I lost my first local event in 1.5 years on a course that was simply back-to-back sweepers. Every turn I came out spinning.
This month, I went back to beating the class on a great transitional course. So good, that at this event, for the first time EVER I coned all of my runs, but still won (by .2 seconds).

G Stock currently doesn't have cars quite as nimble and powerful as the MINI, so it may still not go there. But I feel, after running it Nationally, that it's still not the top of the pack in G Stock, simply because of traction.

Some dialing in could still be done, so there may be a better way to run the Cooper S to compete in G Stock, hopefully we'll be able to find out...