Tires are about the least expensive safety item most racers have to deal with as far as I'm concerned.
The last thing I'd want to do is wreck my bike because I tried to save $20 or $30 bucks on a tire. How smart is that?
Maybe it's just me, but I am not going to run tires that are not rated at least for the class record and speed I intend to run.
The SCTA rules on class record are an OK bare minimum, I'd tend treat the rules just as that "Bare Minimum". If I have plans to run beyond the speed rating required by the class record, I'd run the appropriately rated tires for the predicted speed.
Rouse