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Re: minimum weight requirement

To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
Subject: Re: minimum weight requirement
From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:02:19 -0700
On Saturday, Oct 19, 2002, at 12:14 US/Pacific, Rocky Entriken wrote:

> Best example of the problem I remember was a DP husband/wife. When she
> drove, they had to put 100 pounds of ballast in the car. They did it by
> having her sit on a 50-pound bag of kitty litter and putting another 
> behind
> her, replacing the "midget shim" they'd previously used for her.  And 
> then,
> just to compound things, that car rolled at the '82 Nationals. 
> Fortunately
> with him in it (and no injury), but the "what-if" arose had she'd been 
> in it
> with that 100 pounds of kitty litter part of the equation -- next year 
> the
> with-driver rule was gone.

Well, it would have facilitated the course cleanup, at leat.  ;)

Serious question - what were the circumstances of the roll?  I've 
thought rolling to be almost exlusively a stock sedan - borderline SP 
problem.

KeS

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