Jean:
Actually, the book says "A. Courses must be tight enough so that cars run
the entire course in their lower gears. Speeds on straight stretches should
not normally exceed the low 60's (mph) for the fastest Stock and Street
Prepared category cars.".
Why wasn't the problem area changed? The part I really don't understand is
throwing out all of Sunday's runs. This penalized the competitors, who
were NOT at fault. IMHO, the SS and event organizers should have received
a letter of reprimand instead.
Greg Scharnberg
At 02:22 PM 2/19/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>This is in response to some of the protests held at the Ft. Myers tour
>this weekend. I have strong feelings about one in paticular. Robert
>Carpenter, GS competitor protested the event today for unsafe speed. The
>SS GT3 was clocked all three runs I heard, at 83MPH...let's see 13 MPH
>over the speed by SCCA rules.
>
> In return, the protest was upheld and all runs for Sunday thrown out....
> Well, kudos IMO, need to be given to powers that be. Such rules, such
> as that very importnat rule can really dictate what happens with
> insurance, sites and other issues...this has long been going on with many
> events and taken for granted. Sites/events have been disolved due to
> accidents and issues regarding this. I am strongly opinioned on these
> type issues due to how easy it is to lose insurance or sites......
>
> I heard this was not done for postion or things like that, and know9ing
> Robert as I do and his integrity as a competitor/host/instructor, these
> issues must be addressed and htought of first and formost. he is not one
> to do this for malicious or vendictive behavior- if anyone knows him they
> would know how past exepriences of that would see his past behavior
> require different actions. I think this issue has long needed addressed
> and GUIDELINES strictly set and accessed by the regions and powers that
> be for the future of our sport and where it will go or possibly NOT go.
>
> It was not his intenet to just get times thrown for Sunday and advance
> any position but address issues long at the forefront of this sport.
>
> jean
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