Thanks Ed, just what we need, more tGA worship!
Methinks Mr. Ed was being "sarcastic"...
If you are talking a 3000 pound car 50 - 100# is not a big deal.
For those of you in the "50 pounds is not a big deal" mindset, let me ask you this:
Let's say you had just gotten done with a hard-fought tooth-and-nail battle with someone and you lost, but when they went across the scales Tech found them 5 pounds light. But, Tech decides that they're not going to do anything about it because "5 pounds is not a big deal".
How would you feel about that? Would you agree with Tech and say "you know, you're right, let's just forget about it"? Or would you believe you'd been robbed of a win because that 5 pounds "could have" made a difference?
What if it was 10 pounds? 25? 50? 100? At what point are you satisfied to get beat by someone running lighter than they're supposed to? Does it make you less happy that it's a smaller percentage of your car's weight, versus a hard number like 5 pounds (i.e., are you less unhappy if that happened in ITR versus ITC?)
"Well, that's not going to happen!" you say. "That's against the rules!" Sure it is. But does it make you feel any better when the rules are adjusted such that
you have to weigh 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 pounds more than the "process weight" as compared to your competitor's car, when their car went through the same process as you did?
Really, legal or illegal, what's the difference in the end result?
The point I'm trying to make is that it's real nice and easy when you're sitting on an ivory tower making the rules, and you see no problem waving away pounds as applied to someone else. But it's a whole 'nother kettle of fish when you're on the losing end of that 5 pounds... Waving the backs of our hands at a 5 pound discrepancy in process weight
is no different than ignoring a competitor running 5 pounds lighter than the classified weight.
In the end, it's all the same.
Just sayin'.