It needs to be a process that works also at Tours and Divisionals (probably
Pros too). This isn't a rule for just one event.
What may be available at Forbes Field (they have a microfiche reader??) may
not be available elsewhere.
(National office isn't quite so handy either)
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net>
To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; "Rick Cone" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>;
<Ghsharp@aol.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: shop manuals
> FWIW, I think the Protest Shed (more commonly know as the Porsche
> Parking area) has a micro fiche reader there and I think last
> year had a PC or access to the PC's (to read Service Manual CDs)
> in the registration in the MTAA building.
>
> Matt Murray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
>
> > Let's make it even more stupid: Protestee HAS his factory
> documentation.
> > It's a pile of microfiches. How do we read those? Well, we go
> to the dealer,
> > who has a microfiche machine and read them there. Dealer
> charges $100 for
> > the service (which, as someone else pointed out earlier, would
> be covered by
> > the protest bond). It would have been the same $100 if we had
> used the
> > DEALER'S microfiches, but instead we required every entrant in
> the paddock
> > to have his own set. We have saved exactly nothing, cost the
> protestor the
> > same amount as before, and ALSO cost all the entrants heavy
> out-of-pocket
> > money to no good purpose.
> >
> > And BTW, that $100 is just a number plucked out of the air for
> an hour of a
> > mythical shop's time. Some shops may charge more, some less.
> And maybe the
> > shop just uses 15 minutes and only charges $25. Maybe the shop
> in a burst of
> > goodwill gets us the needed spec for free (I'd not be surprised
> if that was
> > the norm). The cost of finding out ONE pertinent spec is so
> minimal compared
> > to the cost of having every bit of information handy "just in
> case" I can't
> > see that there is any real issue there.
>
> > --Rocky
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