On a serious note...
Per NASA the R888's will be legal for the first 3 weekends (I am pretty sure it is 3) in your local region. So we won't all need to be on RA-1 in January.
Az guys have a real problem since our first race of 2010 is the first week in January traditionally. It will be interesting to see what happens. Personally I have two sets of R888's that I just hope to make through my last two events this year. I want to go to RA-1 i January, but we shall see how that goes. The only good news, if you can call it that, is that I can probably burn up a set of new R888's in 3 weekend with ease.
At least I can run with the RA-1 guys on them.