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When they changed the rule this year about the window net dropping down instead of up, I had to change. Instead of reinventing the wheel I decided to just change the top to a GM style clip to match the bottom. Now it can drop either way. I don't see any issues with this and as far as I'm concerned it is perfectly legal. Now at the SARRC/MARRS double at VIR I was sitting in impound, I had my net UP. One of the tech inspectors came over and started to give me a hard time and I explained that it goes both ways. He said he didn't care and it HAD to go down. He said that if he saw that again he would not allow me to race. I didn't think much about it at the time and doubt that that will prevent me from racing in the future, but my question is why would he had made a big deal about it anyways (besides boredom). What was the real reasoning behind changing the rule in the first place?
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So, you put it up in the paddock, and down at impound!!!!!! It passed annual, didn't it? I'm not going to touch your first question - why. To answer your second question, I don't know 100% for sure, but it is very logical that in the interest of safety, SCCA wants the net to fall down away from the door opening in case you have to exit the car rapidly and not risk the net falling down off the roof and being in the way. Of course, this theory is negated if you got the rubber side up and you REALLY have to get out of the car in a hurry! A second benefit is that the corner workers only have to look in two places for the release instead of four. Shhhhhhhhsh, next we'll have to put net release decals on our cars! Just kidding, I hope! But, seriously - again, I remember the car I went to driver's school in and it had a net that released at the bottom and lay on the roof. Two things - 1) the release was located well below the window sill and you almost had to have the door open to release the net, and 2) my arms were almost too short to flip the net up onto the roof so it would stay there!