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Originally Posted by john marcella
If I recall you were found not legal at that race. For irrelevant reasons but still not legal.
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Nah I was deemed legal. During initial tech I did not have a passenger seat in the car. I did not know the class required one. I told the tech official I would cut down a folding chair and bolt it in the car to be compliant. The tech director said don't worry and just have one in there the next time i show up. It wasn't a weight thing since I had around 75-90 pounds in the trunk to make weight. The entire passenger seat thing was funny. I saw one car that had a little kids plastic chair with the legs cut off bolted in.
Prior to my first and only qualifying run all of the competitors came by my pit and thanked me for showing up and supporting their series. I mean I had a Pontiac and all of them that showed up to prior races were not competitive. I was just another class filler. I went 8.08 off the trailer in the heat to qualify #2. That's when the rumblings started. I did not make any other qualifying attempt even when the sun went down and people were going faster. Competitors would ask me if I was hurt and that's why I didn't make any additional passes. I simply responded I didn't need to make additional hits.
I proceeded to put local hero after local hero on the trailer. I think I was protested 2-3 times that night due to not having a seat. Each time I told tech I'll bolt a folding chair in to be compliant but they would say don't worry about it. It got very disrupting. I was called a cheater time after time on the return road. People would argue that me not having a passenger seat was no different then "qualifying with a cast intake single 4 and then putting a billet dual 4 on for eliminations and saying I can't open my hood to show you my intake because my hood is stuck".
Not all of the racers and their crew up there were cry babies.