Guys,
The issue of illegal parts at local events isn't trivial in my opinion.
Since cars are not tech inspected at events for illegal parts, it is indeed
up to the competitors to police their class. It seems that everytime I went
to a Regional event, I always found several cars in my class running
something illegal, whether it was a rear sway bar, or a gutted air intake or
an upper strut bar or whatever. I would make a list and present it to the
event Chair and ask him to re-classify the offending cars into the proper
class.
Now I'll grant you that a majority of the time it was newbies who hadn't
bothered to buy a rule book. But ignorance of the rules is not a defense at
any level of our sport.
If such drivers aren't going to bother to learn the rules, then the only way
they are going to learn the boundaries is to be on the short end of a
protest. Isn't that the way this game works? Plus, it isn't fair to the
people in a class who work to make their car legal to have to put up with
running against people who don't care, or figures it just doesn't matter.
Even on a Regional level.
Larry Steckel
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