Well what's to stop them anyone from coming with everything but the bottle
and then connecting it after tech. I think you just have to ask them to
remove or disconnect the line personally. If they were to hook it back up
and use it some how you going to be able to tell. Then you just have to ask
them to leave forever. I like the first event only thing. Word will
usually get out not to come with it. Most people come to there first autox
because of someone they know. Maybe that can be added to websites and what
not for those who have them giving new people advise. Clean your car of
loose items, disconnect laughing gas, and so on. That would at least give
some people a warning.
Dan Bettis
danbettis@zrracing.com
http://www.predatormotorsport.com
http://www.zrracing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mdmotorsprt@aol.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Nitrous Proposal
> List,
>
> Any reaction or suggestions to something better than what is being propsed
> for the Nitrous users that show up at autocrosses? Seems a proposal may be
> afoot (last issue of Safety Belt) that would basically deny any
particiaption
> immedialty of any driver that showed up at our events with a nitrous
bopttle
> in the car.
>
> I am not in favor of nirtous, works fine on the drag strip, I suppose. But
> there is a concerted effort to attract the drag racers, and to immediatly
> send them home seems counter productive.
>
> The proposals talked about included disconnecting the bottles/shutting
them
> off (then the supposed fear is the driver's would re-connect after tech),
> remove from the car (then the fear is storage), but since a better
compromise
> could not be acheived, out right banning, even for the first timer, is
being
> seriously considered. Basically, the proposal stated: send em home and
come
> back with out.
>
> I don't agree. But I need to understand safety issues about nitrous
better.
> If it is the pressurized vessel problem, I maintain that disconnecting
from
> the system should easy, and leaving the bottle securly strapped (provided
it
> is securely attached) in the car is safer than removing entirely. This
would
> happen at the first event only, and the driver(s) would be advised to not
> bring the car back again with any nitrous at all.
>
> We teched maybe two cars last year with NOS in them, and we did just the
> above. Advised the drivers to disconnect (they did) and they could run
that
> day, but they could not come back a second time with the bottles in the
car.
>
> Thoughts???
>
> Mike Dickerson
> Central Kentucky
>
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