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And some here condemn him for demanding that the rules be enforced??
Very strange.
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One rule was broken: illegal weight rod/piston/pin assembly weight.
Another one was broken: time of protest vs. rule book wording.
As much as I don't like to see an illegal piece I also don't like to see a random application of the rules which is the norm when it comes to the rule book lately.
I don't think that the protesting racer did anything wrong at all. Actually he did everything right. Whoever allowed the protest to procede irregardless of the rule book wording is who dropped the ball.
PS: you will never know if your bullet is legal or not unless you built it yourself or measured it yourself as it was being assembled. Then you still may be tossed by a "judgement" call beyond you or your engine builders control. Example: I recently freshened a current record holder only to find that a 55 pass piston had lost a small piece of the skirt. Just to see what would have happened the assembly was .542 of a gram light. The others were a little over 6 grams heavy. Had it been torn down it would have been illegal. Same as an intake valve leaving a mark on a piston top from an over rev coming out of the water box. Beyond anyone's control.