Earl- thanks for keeping me in check
I was being a little harsh on my opinion, and for the record, I WOULD follow all the correct protest policies, and like all of you I am so anoyed with this rules that I would probably take 2 min of my time say it was legal and move on no harm no foul. I also fully support drivers going to stewards in advance and asking if something is compliant or not, and I truley feel that they should give thier honest opinion and that it should hold true for that entire weekend.
Examples:
1) I feel that you should be able to go to say the tech steward ask about the legality of an item and have it ok'd or not per him/her. That tech steward then should not DQ (file an RFA) on that same issue. Obviosly if another competitor makes a protest then it is up to the SOM's, not the tech steward.
2) Another example would be to go to the chief steward and ask if it was ok for you to wear your Isacc, if he/she says yes then you should be good to go and not expect any RFA's that weekend for wearing it.
With that said, filing an actual protest with another driver against basically yourself on an issue that will only give you the opinions of the handfull of stewards on the SOM that weekend is not fair to them or you. The ruling means nothing for future races thus to be reasured that you were compliant every weekend would mean that you would need to file a protest every weekend. I stand by that and I truley think that if you kirk or anyone else did this it would be the incorrect process to follow. You are educated, do the right thing.
If I misunderstood what you said earlier to mean that you would appeal it to SCCA-topeka to get an "official" or "national level" determination I am sorry. I thought in your previose posts that you wanted to achieve a 13.9 with a protest.
Also please stop making out a 13.9 as a non-valuable option. many people come here and view for education, and many of us here seem to give out bad information. To you and Greg and others that worked on the sperical bearing issue you did the correct thing and fixed things for A LOT of people.
BTW Greg, did you get your $ back from SCCA? just curiouse how that part of the process works.
Raymond "Sorry if I upset you with my strong "retaliation" I just hate people putting our workers in a cituation that is not fair to them" Blethen
PS: Kirk, if the 13.9 were to go in your favor you would recieve a letter from SCCA stating that it was legal. You could scan that letter post it here and greg could even post it on the Issac site for people to download and print out, so it isn't such a weak way to go about it, it is actually far stronger than ANY protest should be. I do give you credit though, an appeal would be published either way in fast track, but who reads the court of appeals beside you a few others and myself? (joke).