Josh, I wholly encourage you to grab the GCR and read the details rollcage rules yourself. It's really too large a subject to discuss reasonably without an understanding of the basics...
George, I can't give you an official clarification of the rules regarding your mounting plates concern, but I've seen far too many multiple-plate mounting points to think that it must be required to be a contiguous piece. For example, how many car have you seen out there with "boxes" built onto which the legs are mounted? Further, how about compound curves - such as at the firewall - that are handled with multiple plates welded together?
Finally, consider this: if two separate plates are welded together and the seams ground flush to where you can't see the weld, are they now considered contiguous? If you say yes, then what if the welds were not ground off so you can see them; still contiguous? If no, then why not, being the only difference is the perception of the reality?
Remember: cheating is still cheating, even if you can't see it.
Realistically speaking, I would place my bets on the "not required to be one big bent piece" argument. Plates that are properly welded together ARE contiguous by all definitions of the term. Just because they did not start out life as one big bent piece is irrelevant.
Hopefully so, I might add, since mine - and most of my competitors - did not.
GA
it will have to be seamless DOM tubing to get a new road racing logbook, and © it must conform to the dimension rules.
