I was at an autocross in San Diego close to 15 years ago and
watched a cone "slide by" without being hit! We have always had
"nice" people bring us "spare"? cones... You know, city cones for
streets and water works and the like. Well some one had found a hard
plastic, but not to light, cone. I had seen it for several events and
it just seemed "different" not wrong.
After I watched Lou Anderson blast BY the cone, with his exhaust out
the rear, and the cone follow in his "wake", I let the closer corner
call in the penalty and then I promptly took a spare cone and replaced
it, then thru the offending Item in the trash!
Now I watch for the "lightweights".
Bill Sanford
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> Would the exhaust blow the cones over?!? :-)
> >>
> And if so is it a penalty?
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It might, and yes. No matter how it happens, if the passing of your car
causes a cone to move or fall you get the penalty. Be it from a side
exhaust pipe or a part falling off the car. Sucks, doesn't it.
A couple years ago at a MiDiv Solotime event Ron VerMulm blew over a
cone
with his exhaust pipe wind which exited in front of the rear tire.
After I
told him that's how he did it, since he wasn't exactly sure how it
happened,
he put turn-downs on the pipes to prevent _that_ from happening again at
future event. ;^)
Eric Linnhoff in KC
'98 Dodge Neon R/T (see-dan)
'95 Plymouth Sport Coupe (coop)
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