After a great day out on the track I had a run in with the SCCA rule book this Sunday. What happened kinda sucked and to tell the truth it put a shitty end to what would have otherwise been a great day.
I went to the event along with Leif as part of a Pan-Am regional auto-x Volkswagen invasion. When we arrived I had no idea what class the Corrado was supposed to be in and the helpful gentleman at the registration desk suggested I run in DSP based on the modifications to my car. There were two other Corrados there and they both ran STS because they decidedly had far less modification. Cool – I thought.
With out pushing the car hard at all I consistently ran in the 71 second range. This right in-between the other two Corrados, one with a fast time in the low 69’s and the other that came in around 74. I felt really good about the runs I took because it had been such a long time since I’d raced, best of all they were all clean, no cones. Further more with the only other car running DSP a good 9 seconds slower I was on the top of the world.
Turns out the other guy, a Mr. David Thomson, in DSP who drove a white 2002 Pontiac Grand Am GT had been quite upset that my time was so much faster than his. Also the added suspicion that there were two other Corrados running in another class gave rise to him protesting my participation in DSP. Nevermind the fact that DSP allows for more modifications that STS and one of the Corrados ran a faster time tham me. His complaints fell of deaf ears as far as I can tell until he really started crying – he pointed out that because I had removed my back seat I was not allowed to run DSP.
I let him have the little first place trophy because franky I didn’t care and I wanted to go eat. I thought that was the end of it. Turns out he also wanted my first place DSP points. 30 minutes of gripping latter (negating the fact that the back seat probably only weighs 20lbs – this was a principle thing damnit) about how he’d tried so hard to win the points race last year I agreed to let him have the points.
I got to looking at the results from last year and found the guy only participated in one event and he’d only received 7 points for the entire season. For this single event Mr. Thomas finished 3.4 seconds behind the only other competitor in DSP (a gentleman in a Fiat X19) and had the 3rd slowest time of the day (Putting him in front of an 86 Corolla and a Go Kart).
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It always happens. The problem regionals out here this year was that the course was actually too fast.
Apparantely a Porsche GT3 and a Corvette Z06 were both doing over 85mph, which is waaaay outside the SCCA rules. So someone put up a small complaint just to get the course designer to take note, and the SCCA panel found out that they would have to invalidate all the times earned that day.
What a cockup. Good thing I go just for the tire squeal.
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