Postby chris1388 » September 22nd, 2014, 12:02 pm
So I am going to write this post and who ever vex loss because we can't have honest competitors who are following all the rules and then have others who are blatantly cheating and further more have people scrutineer on the day and not picking up on obvious infringements that would put cars in higher classes than they are requesting to be put in.
This is the second time I have had to point out cars that have been incorrectly classed to the officials and I think something needs to be done to put a stop to this. Had I not said anything nothing would have been done. Clearly leaving it open to honesty by the drivers is not working because these two times that I pointed out errors the drivers are well aware of what their cars have yet said nothing.
Yesterday a subaru impreza was put in SS class, the argument being the car was classed there from the beginning of the year. It is clear that work has been done to this car from that time to now and it is no longer an SS car, my guess is not even an EP car. The car has from what I understand at least coil over suspension which puts 3 points on it immediately, it only requires one more point to be put out of SS and into EP. I think the people doing the srcutineering need to be more aware and when a car like this is within 1 point of being bumped extra attention needs to be placed. A simple knowledge of what carries points could have easily seen this car has other mods that will surely add 1 more penalty point and put it out of SS class yet this was not done and the car allowed to run SS on the day.
The car in question not only needs to be scrutineered properly for modifications as per the solodex penalty point system but it also needs to be re-dyno'd to establish base class since I know the car is much quicker than it was at the beginning of the year, you don't even need a dyno to notice that. If paying the protest fee is required to do that I am more than willing to pay it because this kind of stuff has to stop or things put in place to greatly reduce it.
Chris.