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Originally posted by GregAmy
Dude, low blow! Driving instructors neither know nor care about the legality of students' cars. If I see something obvious I'd be happy to point it out, but I hardly spent time looking over your car in detail...
By no means intended as such (and certainly accurate enough for most instructors but I had put you on a higher pedestal :) ) - if this just boiled over in your mind recently, my bust. But if the temptest was brewing back then, as a potential future competitor I thought it may have come to mind that hey alot of these cars have SBs. I mean almost everyone I had spoken with up to that point at some point in the conversation about my preparation (at the summit school for instance) had brought up "you know that car really needs SBs, right?" I mean this topic came up a bunch when I talked to SCCA people at NASA and started going to SCCA events - but I hadn't had any warning that there was underlying backlash to it. Expectations may have been misplaced - I am sure if it was on your mind you would have said something then. Probably in my frustration I am grabbing at straws at how I could have prevented being in this situation of uncertainty as I get to the end of January.
Also, hey maybe you were too focused on keeping me on course and not locking up to worry about anything else...
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Originally posted by GregAmy
Unchanged (that should get him to overthinking WAY too much... ;) )
LOL - Nah as long as it is unchanged.
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As I paid more attention I learned their use was rapidly increasing, and some time last year we learned a major Honda parts guy was actually modifying the control arms on CRXs to make them fit! At that point it became a bit more than veiled disinterest
Now see that is just wrong. (Not sure if that is in reference to racing a honda or modifying the arms themselves - but still just wrong.)
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In the end, I strongly suspect that this issue will be resolved at either the CRB or CoA level, and I fully expect the Club to come back and declare SBs legal. However, this allowance will very likely not be due to the fact that they've been legal to the letter or spirit rules as written, or that anyone made a clear logical argument in their favor, but rather they'll be declared legal in the same light as Motec is clearly illegal to the spirit but legal to the letter: a clever, tortured genie that has been released from the bottle but the Club does not have the intenstinal fortitude to cram it back in.
I hope so on the first part. However, I don't hope so for that reason. I hope so because it was intended. If it wasn't intended despite how unhappy I will be I hope not - because one day that way of making decisions is just going to bite me to someone elses benefit when I feel as strongly as you do. I want the right answer, not the convenient one. But we all want stuff...
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The final result will be an official blessing of a tortured interpretation of a basic and clear rule, leading competitors (including myself) to deep-read the rules to the point of exhaustion, looking to get that next loophole installed on my car for such a length of time that the statute of limitations iexpires and we can consider it to be de facto - and de jure - legal. - GA
See you need to be asking your students do they really know what they are getting themselves into and do they really need all this? :)