Just a quick question to clarify a dispute at a local event.
The Acura RSX type-s. It is STS legal yes?
We had a guy running with a carbon fiber hood. When approached about it he
shrugged it off saying that this wasn't nationals and it didn't matter.
Theoretically it probably didn't matter but everyone else out there is
classing themselves by the book. Whether the hood made a time difference or
not in my view it was cheating to be running a class (and competing well)
and knowing you are by the book legal. For his final run he swapped hoods
with an rsx running SM. His time was a 10th or 2 slower than his previous
runs. I believe the decision was made to add 20 seconds to all of his runs
with the illegal hood and let him keep his final time.
Questions are:
Is the car STS legal with the stock hood in place?
What class does it bump to if it has the hood?
What is a fair way to deal with this silliness? Were it me, I would simply
class myself in the correct class just to keep from ruffling feathers and
for my own personal sense of integrity.
Thanks
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