[Doug Hoven]

As much as it sucks to see someone, in fact more than one genuinely all around good person to get disqualified at a race, I think it was a very important move from a tech standpoint. All of the cars that found there way into the teardown barn this past weekend at Maple Grove are cars that have a reputation of being very fast cars. It may have been good practice to tear down all of the class winners, but the time and manpower wasn't present to be able to manage that kind of operation. It is important to see that the racers aren't the only ones noticing which cars are going very fast during heads ups, while staying in the middle of the pack at all other times during competition. Hopefully this serves as a bit of a reminder to some that they can and will be torn down at any point at a race, and that tech hasn't completely backed off like some may have thought. Even though it takes a trained eye along with time and effort, It would be comforting to continue to see more random teardowns in the future, maybe not even just for engines. Safety, Electronics, etc.