mark pilson wrote:
> Certainly I am not trying to take anything away from Ron's driving ability.
> I have watched him drive and he does very well.
Understood.
> Obviously I was not there
> so I don't have first hand knowledge of what I am about to say. However, it
> was mentioned to me that the car was rather low at practice. After this was
> brought to his attention, the car showed up for competition at a higher ride
> height.
Can't you adjust front ride height on CRX's with a simple torsion bar
adjustment or something? (aside from that, the car probably has over
200k on it... it's bound to have some sag) My guess is that Ron made
the adjustment from "questionable" to "unquestionable" to avoid a
protest. He knows he's being watched, and after last year, he's not
going to throw away a championship over something like that.
> As I stated in an earlier post, I have no idea if the car was legal or not,
> just as I have no idea if anyone in the class was legal. Just because the
> car wasn't protested does not mean it was legal.
It means that his competition was satisfied that it was legal. And
don't think for a second that those guys wouldn't have protested him if
they thought something wasn't legal.
> >Face it, Ron was within 7/1000ths of your bud on Thursday, and beat him
> >by a mere half a second on Friday. If one was illegal, I'd say both
> >were.
>
> Now that really doesn't make much sense does it? You are saying that if two
> cars run near the same time and one is illegal then they both are? What
> about driver ability? What if the illegal modification actually makes the
> car slower?
My opinion is that both cars were legal and Ron just outdrove the other
CRX driver (along with most of the other drivers). I launched this
thread because I didn't like someone publicly hinting that a friend of
mine was competing in an illegal car. I wanted to know what the alleged
illegality was.
> I am not saying this at all. I have no doubt that there are several fast
> people who have never been to Topeka or rarely go.
You might not have been saying this, but there are without a doubt
several "cliques" who run all the National events who do feel that an
"unknown driver" can't possibly win without cheating.
> As I said before, I have
> no idea if the car was legal during competition but it was rather low at
> practice and it was higher on the first day of competition.
What about tires? Did Ron have the same tires on the car at practice as
he competed on? I'm sure the tires he competed on were probably the
widest that he could stuff on the rim (at least up front), he may have
practiced on junk tires of a different size. There are a lot of
possible causes for a ride height variance. Not all of them involve
cheating.
> BTW, what does
> Byron's analysis system have to do with this?
Just free advertising.
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