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Bill & Joe-
I respect your views, however I am with the old guy on this one...
We (SCCA Members) are here for fun, and any steward who doesn't recognise that I don't want to work with, nor do I want to race when he/she is running the event. I agree that stewards certainly have an obligation to prevent illigal cars from racing, but that is not all they do (they also run the event, and many don't have time to look for/investigate cars that knowone makes a protest on). As a Steward or a Driver I wont be an @$$ and DQ someone for not using a turn down, or a window vent or any other non safety or non performance modification that made it so they could beat the next guy. If YOU the competitor protested the person, well then we would talk. Stewards are not out to examine every part of every car (we have enough to do already). All that would do is piss off perfectly good people (members) looking to simply have a good time. Basically we don't look for trouble, we try to resolve issues as fair as possible while continuing to run the event.
I for one never looked at a SM miata running in IT to see if it was legal or not while in IT, and I am sure most others also havn't (If you have a problem with that then tell me what is or isn't legal on a FA off the top of your head??? I know I don't know those rules. IT & SM is not the main or only concern of a steward believe it or not). If a driver had come to me about any car I certainly would have/will investigate, but I have never herd any at track complaints.
Raymond "If drivers are 'uncomfortable' [sic] enforcing the rules, they shouldn't be complaining. :014: " Blethen
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