In the Region I autocross with, Tech is very
important. They pride themselves on trying very hard
to elimiate the mechanical part of safety issues. Of
course we all know things break, but in the past 5
years, I cannot remember one incident where it was
something that should have been caught in Tech.
We use the same form everytime, follow the form and
check everything over and over again. I find it a
helpful hand to have another set of eyes looking at
the car I built. Somtimes we get too close to our
projects and skim past things we said we'll fix in the
future.
I have yet to have any competitos complain about the
stringent procedure at each event either.
My .02
Don Miller
Must Go Faster Racing
Snake River Region R.E.
--- Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/5/00 10:45:51 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, eric10mm@qni.com
> writes:
>
> << Just in case anybody thinks that only our Solo
> clubs have gotten lax on
> their safety guard lately, it just ain't so. I
> think it's just a sign of
> the times. A very BAD sign that is. Some much
> needed wake-up calls are
> being heard elsewhere as well. >>
>
> The "draftee" tech program in SF Region has flunked
> one car in tech in about
> every 6-8 events. One of our event chairs (Ben
> Martinez) recently (day
> before yesterday) got tough on tech and found
> problems on somewhere between 5
> and 10 cars in ONE event. I'd recommend every
> region crack down on tech.
> I'll bet you find more problems than you'd expect.
>
> And my kudos to Ben Martinez!
>
> Charlie Davis
> SFR Solo 2 Chief
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