Jay,
First off, I'm not trying to find an advantage or screw the Solo people or be
a dick about anything or whatever else people out there think...I'm just
trying to clarify how a rule is interpreted. I've read the book from cover to
cover and what I found is that nowhere does it mention either "Car,"
"Automobile," or "Vehicle" minimum weight. The only mention is to Minimum
weight. This doesn't inherently say without driver to me. It only says the
minimum weight shall be...
the reference to Street prepared was their allowance for Improved Touring cars
to run with IT rules in their respective street prepared class. Why not allow
production cars the same in prepared.
What would be the basis for losing the appeal? There is no rule that allows
driver adjustable sway bars in Prepared but a ton of cars have them, so by the
basis of the weight interpretation all of those cars are illegal.
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Mitchell
Sent: 18 October, 2002 17:47
To: Aaron Johnson; autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: minimum weight requirement
Aaron Johnson wrote:
>Okay, so the consensus is that it is without driver.
No, the _rule_ is that it is without driver.
>But I still maintain I
>will appeal any disqualification based on minimum weight that
can be met
>with the driver in the car.
That's fine, but you'll lose your appeal.
>I have sent my letter requesting clarfication
>and I have also requested that the PCS be allowed to prepare a
car for autox
>to allow club racing cars to be used legally,
You can already do that, but you have to meet the Solo II minimum
weight. "Vehicle minimum weight" means exactly that. There is no
equivalent to GCR Section 17.9 in the Solo II rulebook. The
definition of "vehicle" cannot reasonably be interpreted to
include the driver.
> if it works for street
>prepared why not for prepared.
There are no minimum weights in SP.
>AGAIN...an unwritten rule is not a rule.
Correct. "Vehicle minimum weight" cannot be interpreted to
include driver, since that is not stated.
>Everyone says without driver
More importantly, the rulebook doesn't say _with_ driver.
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