Overweight Stockers

Billy Nees · 03-30-2009, 09:59 AM

Ya know, I was having a discussion with somebody on another thread about Stock Racers adding weight to their cars to slow them down. Well, me being me I had to get out my trusty old 09 rulebook to have a looksee at weight. Now this is MY humble interpretation of MY black and white rule book (the only gray areas that I can find are in the pictures) but if I am classified as an A/SA car then my car MUST weigh between 8.00lbs. per HP and 8.50lbs. per HP or I'm not classified in the right class and should be DQed. In other words if my car scales at say 8.56 then I'm a B/SA car and should be classified as one. I can't go across at 7.92 and run A/SA so seeing as there is technically a minimum and maximun weight in the RULES why shouldn't it be enforced?
I do know that this was a bit of an issue at the Gainesville points race and after thinking about it I believe that the tech inspector was correct.

03-30-2009, 09:59 AM	#1
Billy Nees VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: On a hilltop in Pa. Posts: 4,487 Likes: 3,588 Liked 7,687 Times in 1,732 Posts	Overweight Stockers Ya know, I was having a discussion with somebody on another thread about Stock Racers adding weight to their cars to slow them down. Well, me being me I had to get out my trusty old 09 rulebook to have a looksee at weight. Now this is MY humble interpretation of MY black and white rule book (the only gray areas that I can find are in the pictures) but if I am classified as an A/SA car then my car MUST weigh between 8.00lbs. per HP and 8.50lbs. per HP or I'm not classified in the right class and should be DQed. In other words if my car scales at say 8.56 then I'm a B/SA car and should be classified as one. I can't go across at 7.92 and run A/SA so seeing as there is technically a minimum and maximun weight in the RULES why shouldn't it be enforced? I do know that this was a bit of an issue at the Gainesville points race and after thinking about it I believe that the tech inspector was correct. __________________ Billy Nees 1188 STK, SS I'm not spending 100K to win 2K