"Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017

[MR DERBY CITY]

Thanks to Patsy for the wonderful photos, it's truly a blessing to receive all these wonderful race reports from the Hill family. The weather here has been outstanding......

[Larry Hill]

Well we are on our way home! Just 3 hours so will be home by lunch time! The weather looks to be great again today! Good luck to all remaining competitors!

And congratulations to David Barton for winning the overall Factory Stock championship! He wrapped it up after winning first round yesterday!

[Julie Jordan]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Thanks to Patsy for the wonderful photos, it's truly a blessing to receive all these wonderful race reports from the Hill family. The weather here has been outstanding......

Good luck today, MJ!

[Brett C]

As far as the new "no tech" at national events go...all winners in ss & stock were gone over with a fine toothed comb last night. Very thorough inspection. Kudos to the tech guys.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Brett C

As far as the new "no tech" at national events go...all winners in ss & stock were gone over with a fine toothed comb last night. Very thorough inspection. Kudos to the tech guys.

Brett C is spot on as usual. After rd 4 of stock all winners were carefully scrutinized by 4-5 tech officials. Under the hood, seats, rear trunk /cargo area were all checked rather thoroughly......

[Pistol Pete]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Brett C is spot on as usual. After rd 4 of stock all winners were carefully scrutinized by 4-5 tech officials. Under the hood, seats, rear trunk /cargo area were all checked rather thoroughly......

What wouldn't be fair is: What happens if they find something illegal in Rd. 4 ??
The guys they beat along the way kinda of gets screwed then.
It's good that their checking cars, but you wouldn't want to lose to that car in any of
the other 3 rounds & than they find him illegal, cause the losers won't get re-instated.

[Brett C]

Originally Posted by Pistol Pete

What wouldn't be fair is: What happens if they find something illegal in Rd. 4 ??
The guys they beat along the way kinda of gets screwed then.
It's good that their checking cars, but you wouldn't want to lose to that car in any of
the other 3 rounds & than they find him illegal, cause the losers won't get re-instated.

I don't think that anyone here thinks that this is "right". However, it dispels the thought process of no one being checked thoroughly at all at any national event.

[Julie Jordan]

Originally Posted by Pistol Pete

What wouldn't be fair is: What happens if they find something illegal in Rd. 4 ??
The guys they beat along the way kinda of gets screwed then.
It's good that their checking cars, but you wouldn't want to lose to that car in any of
the other 3 rounds & than they find him illegal, cause the losers won't get re-instated.

What's to prevent a guy from teching in, then changing things before eliminations and not getting caught? People will cheat no matter what method is out there. Seems to me random tech inspections may keep the racers on their toes a little bit!

[Brett C]

Congrats to Slate Cummings on his SS win!

[Pistol Pete]

Originally Posted by Julie Jordan

What's to prevent a guy from teching in, then changing things before eliminations and not getting caught? People will cheat no matter what method is out there. Seems to me random tech inspections may keep the racers on their toes a little bit!

Your 100% Correct. Random checks should keep you on your toes, cause you never know when they will come around to check you out.
A couple of years ago they were making you pop your hood in the staging lanes to see if you had a "fake" battery in the front. I believe it was at one of our points races here in D1.

The element of surprise is probably a good thing !!!