I don't know how you operate over there but I think that in the UK if a car was
accepted for a race (ie, received a race entry), had raced with the organisers
before, had legal tyres and passed scrutineering, the organisers would have a
hard time excluding you
I race with the HSCC who operate an invitation class for non-legal cars, but
all cars must file a VIF (Vehicle Identification Form) with the club, run legal
tyres, pass scrutineering and qualify to race
I think that walking away is entirely the wrong attitude. Surely if the car is
legal it should race - and if it's not, and has raced before under a waiver of
some kind, then there should be club records to that effect. Walking away
weakens everyone in the sport - organisers included
I think that if the organisers still don't agree after you've got a ticket from
the scrutineers, looked at the regs and had a sit-down with the organising
committee and the Clerk of the Course, it would time to file a protest with
your regulatory body. If the new Comp Director wishes to reinterpret existing,
unchanged rules then this interpretation can of course be challenged via the
protest mechanism of the appropriate body
Nick Froome
http://www.bolide.co.uk
>I recently had an "experience" with HSR and I was wondering if this type of
>experience has always been a part of HSR or is it indicative of new
>leadership at HSR. I flew out to FL from CA to crew for my Dad at Sebring.
>He is racing a 1964 Jaguar XKE with a Chevy 327. It is the actual car/same
>configuration that he raced in SCCA (A Sports Racing) during the late
>60's-early 70's and he has documentation to prove it. He has raced in HSR
>for the past three years with no complaints or problems. Anyway, at the end
>of the Thursday test day, this guy shows up at our paddock area, says he is
>the "new" competition director, and says that "we" are putting him in a
>tough spot with the car. He was then quite insulting (ran a safety check on
>the car - even though it had already passed tech) and claimed that HSR has
>no place for "mongrel cars". My father pointed out that this is an actual
>vintage race car (not a new build),that he asked for and received approval
>to run from Joe Pendergast (previous Comp Dir), that he had run this car for
>the past three years in HSR, and that he is more than willing to run for no
>points, since he just races for the fun of it. All of this fell on deaf
>ears. The new Comp Director's decision was that if we wanted to run that
>weekend, (1) we would have to get bias-ply tires (even though tires in class
>3A- Sports Racers from 1967-1974 are "free") ,(2) if we had any problems "of
>any kind" (his actual words) in practice, he would not let us run the race
>(nice how he invented a rule "just for us") and that (most important of all)
>(3) we would not be allowed to run any other HSR events this year. Needless
>to say, we don't run where we're not wanted, so we packed up and went home.
>I find it very interesting that this same weekend had a Panoz LMP entered
>(since when is a current ALMS car "historic"?) and a Ginetta with a SB Ford
>(but hey HSR doesn't allow mongrels and kit cars, right?). By walking
>through the Sebring paddock, it appeared that HSR caters primarily to the
>very wealthy or folks with Porsches and does not want folks who just are
>racing for the joy of it.
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