[Phillip marvetz]

"[QUOTE=Dave Jung;267502]Phil, the rule at MRP has always been that you cannot dail outside the class, but you can run an et outside the class if your car is legal to do so. I saw the race in question, and it was good. I cannot believe there was a protest of that round. If the sportsman cut off is 12.00 and you dailed it, you can run 11.98 if your car has the safety equipment to run that et. It is a bogus protest."

The worst part of it is that the other racer didn't protest it, He was stopped by the head tech guy on his way back to his pit and told he should go to the track manager and protest it. He didn't protest it but did ask what the policy was, The track manager couldn't find anything in the rule book and then came to me and told me there was a problem before checking with the tech guy that had started it all. My response was I don't think so,It's not in the rule book and it's never been a problem before so it shouldn't be now. After some time was spent looking for a rule voilation and not finding one it was decided to let me finish the race. Rather unsettling going into the semis. I've had several conversation with this tech person before about this and told him he was mistaken everytime. Section 2 page 6 refers to breakouts at Nation and Divisional events for class cars and he thinks that applies to the Summit E.T bracket series also. No amount of dialog can change his mind even though it's right there in black and white in front of him.

This really only affects the sportsman cars, I dont see to many 8 second cars trying to run pro or 6 second cars trying to run super pro.