April 2014 Fastrack

[Andy Bettencourt]

Andy, we've already argumentated this, many times (see the link you quoted for the thread for the last time you complained about this). The number that's on the block is irrelevant, as it is absolutely no evidence of compliance, nor is it required on the block for it to be compliant.

If you think seeing the number stamped on the block is sufficient evidence that someone is not cheating in Super Touring - and Improved Touring, too, since it's the same exact reg - you're not using your imagination.

GA

Of course that is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that in a class that is based in the cc's of the motor, fostering a 'need' of grinding off the identification numbers that tell people at the very least what that lump started life out as, is ridiculous. Help the competitors by specifically allowing non-USDM motors in the STCS that have been submitted and verified as 'equal' to their USDM counterparts.

And it's NOT the same reg. We have arguedmentotured that too. No place in the ITCS does it specifically disallow part 'X' but then say that if part 'X' is the same as part 'Y' it's legal. The ITCS says that both parts 'Y' AND anything exactly the same as part 'Y', are legal regardless of origin...certainly not necessitating the need to 'hide' the original origin. It may be symantics but I am hung up on it. So be it.