Tech Inspection Vegas Divisional

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Shadylane

There have been discussions on here recently about the lack of through tech inspections, things may be changing a little bit at Divisionals. Don't know about National events as I haven't raced one yet.
One of the tech inspectors at the recent Vegas Divisional really looked over my car pretty closely. I've only been racing this car for a couple of years now and Tech has never given my car more than a cursory glance. Helmet, belts...have a good day! In fact several times previously they never asked to look under the hood. In Tucson they asked to look in the trunk but they did that for all the S/SS cars. I asked if they were looking for bodies, not amused.
This time at Vegas was an exception. I know a few of the Div 7 tech guys but didn't know the gentleman's name, he was pleasant enough.It took him 15 minutes to inspect the car. He really focused on the interior, checked the diameter of the roll bar, construction and in the trunk. Asked about the brand of harmonic balancer, had me remove the air cleaner, checked the carb return springs, looked at the carb and EGR spacer.
During the inspection the tech man excused himself to check with his boss on something as he put it. There were no issues.
Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining, I think more of this should take place. Given that there were 450+ cars to tech I'm surprised that someone would take this much time on one car. I talked with several racers there and they were not checked like I was.
Maybe someone grumbled about the car (I'm not the conspiracy type), maybe it was a random check, not sure, just kind of a surprise. Again not complaining.

Kelly

Actually, the tech dept. was tipped off about your car. FAST Freddy Rector told the tech guys that you were on the SHADY side....