GA said:
We had a situation at the Runoffs this year regarding a protest on a turbocharger. Competitior protested that the turbo was modified. Protestor could not obtain a new turbo to compare it against, because the turbo was no longer available as a new part. Protester contacted the original turbo supplier and had them ship, directly from them to SCCA at Road America, two warranty-returned turbos from that car for visual and dimensional comparison; those parts even had tags with the original VIN that they came from. SCCA Court of Appeals did not accept those as valid comparative parts.
The SCCA would not accept those turbos as OEM new? If not, then the SCCA has set the bar so high for acceptable OEM parts that the protest system cannot work. Most of the cars we race do so with NLA parts. If we have no parts that are acceptable as stock for a protest situation then we can't prove someone is using illegal parts. Not good.
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