First Penalties & Appeals of Season for Enduro & Bone StocksJuly 3, 2013

A series of penalties have been issued by the Delaware Speedway tech department and one appeal received in relation to post-race inspections carried out on vehicles following competition on Saturday, June 22.  Penalties have been issued in both the GAW Recycling Enduro & Bone Stock Chaos Cars.

GAW Recycling Enduro

In the GAW Recycling Enduro series two drivers came up against penalties:

Steve Lovie (#141) of Dutton was cited for refusing tech inspection on the carburetor, intake manifold, and Camshaft lifters.  Similar checks were being done on other top vehicles in inspection.  The vehicle did pass a transmission shift pattern check with no issues.  Following refusal of inspection the driver was also cited under section 4-7 of the General Rules relating to verbal abuse towards an official.  As a result the driver has been suspended for one event and forfeited points and money.

Steve Arrand (#37) of Ailsa Craig was cited for making use of an unsealed crate motor in competition.  As a result the driver forfeits points for the event and prize money for the event.  Arrand appealed the ruling to speedway operations.

“My point is the crate engine that Enduros run are older crates that have been well used by other classes around Ontario,” said Arrand in his appeal.  “I hope Delaware doesn’t think each Enduro driver is going to pay $500 to reseal after putting in a new timing gear/chain. We all know they are a weak point to these engines.  [With] a crate vs built is there an advantage to a crate?  I don’t think there is.”

Speedway operations reviewed the appeal and determined that crate engines that run in the Enduro series must be sealed or declared as built engines subject to built engine rules in advance of competition.  On this basis the appeal was not granted resulting in the forfeit of points and money earned in the event.

Bone Stock Chaos Cars

In the Bone Stock Chaos Cars officials went to work checking the stock status of the suspension of the vehicles.  Fifth place Corbin Morton (#7) failed post-race inspection on the front suspension of the vehicle and was docked points and money earned in the event.  The driver indicated that he was not aware that the adjustments he performed were not permitted and apologized to for the misunderstanding and has since corrected the infraction.

The speedway is taking the opportunity to remind all drivers that the Bone Stock rule book states:

“ALL cars must be ‘stock’ year, make, and model with no modifications. This includes all engine components, drive train, suspension, and cooling system”.

It was determined that modifications had been made to the suspension from its stock status on the street.  The speedway wishes to make clear that the vehicles competing in the Bone Stock series must be completely stock as they were on the street with the exception of safety equipment.  Any other modification of any kind exposes the driver to potential disqualification in a post-race inspection

https://delawarespeedway.com/first-penalties-appeals-of-season-for-enduro-bone-stocks

so what did #7 do to get dq'd? there was no explanasion

Don, your explanasion was explained.

It was determined that modifications had been made to the suspension from its stock status on the street. 

No tyssen it was not. What was the modification that made it illegal? Was it camber? A little more depth would be nice just incase others are doing the same thing they have time to change it.