----- Original Message -----
From: "Keath Marx" <larrybulk@marx.ws>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>; <evolution-discussions@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:35 PM
Subject: [evolution-disc.] RSX-Type S
> 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?
2-liter engine, open diff, four seats...can't see why it wouldn't be, since
it doesn't appear on the exclusion list.
> What class does it bump to if it has the hood?
I think your call of SM is correct.
> 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.
Some places I've run just revise the car to the correct class if something
like this is called to their attention. Adding time to negate the effects
of illegal parts seems fair enough, too. Like the guy said, it's not
nationals, which leaves the local T&S crew to come up with their own
solution. What's he going to do -- file a formal protest that he reclassed
to where he was supposed to be, or penalized for cheating (since it was
politely brought to his attention, it's no longer a mistake)?
Jamie
'92 Prelude Si
Speed Demon Racing
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr
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