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-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Chase <randyc2@home.com>
To: Scotty *BOB* White <we2fat4asp@seanet.com>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: DQ question
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>Scotty *BOB* White wrote:
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>> first car weighs 3194lb on a 3200lb minimum *without* driver,
>> same car weighed again at 3197lb
>> same car weighed again at 3196lb then again at 3195lb
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>Regardless of driver and how many times it was weighed it was not legal.
>Kinda like the protest at nats about a car being a incorrect. Doesn't
>matter if it's one pound or 100 pounds.
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>Unfortunate though. Does this take into consideration gasoline or other
>fluids? 4 pounds is only about a half gallon of gas.
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>> appeal made on basis of car being DQ'd by the same amount that scales
varied
>> in wieght and that car 1 had significant advantage over cars 2 & 3 that 3
>> pounds would not have mattered as car *with* driver was 65lb heavier than
>> identical car 2
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>Driver weight does not figure in, right? The only thing I think you can
>take from that is a moral victory, but rules are rules.
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>> Should I be pissed? (i am the first car to finish)
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>I would be pissed that I had not made sure I was legal weight.
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>>
>> Could they have imposed a lesser penalty? Did the 3 pounds make up the
1/2
>> lap in 30?
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>Of course not. Thats racing. You know that. And how would you feel if
>you were the next legal finisher and the car above you was only
>"slightly illegal"? Hard to deal with slightly illegal.
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>>
>> driver 1 weighs 260lb
>> driver 2 weighs 186lb
>> driver 3 weighs 100lb
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>Wow....driver three must be tiny! You have my sympathies Scotty. Sounds
>like you drove the snot out of the car. Unfortunately, the snot must
>have weighed 3-4 pounds. 8-(
>
>Randy Chase (getting heavier every year but still has a ways to go)
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