Scott
I agree with what your saying. The cost I'm sure is going through the roof. However, that does not make it Donaldsons, Ted, Dilley's or Sunset's fault. So what Donaldson did was pushing the envelope, and I understand there should be concerns. But it isn't cheating then? Its just being a racer? Thats my take anyways.
Earnhardt I agree and its not Donaldsons fault, its all racers. Every year we all push the envelope and find that grey area so to speak or we just make changes and hope we don't get caught. You asked a question about revolutionizing the sport and here we go off topic again, can we ever stay on topic?? Ever??
Scott's point is valid in all types of racing and people try stuff which fits into the rules layed out and then someone says hey they have pushed to far and you see this all the time in Nascar but NASCAR lays down the law and says nope you broke the rules. Even though team found a grey area and in most series they would say we were wrong and fix the rules but when you are NASCAR you never ever admit you were wrong and the drivers get fined and lose points.
Ever sport people try to find a extra advantage over your competition, motorsports isn't the only sport where this happens.
I remember in track and field we used to move the starting blocks up a bit with our feet, it may have been only a inch or so but no one said you couldn't do it, as you had to adjust it get your footing to get a good start. If they didn't want them moved they should have nailed them down and the rules never said you couldn't. If they knew we were doing this they might of said that is a no no and DQ me and others that did this. We took that chance and it worked for us.
Just an example
Evan,
Two things;
The tracks around Ontario don't have NASCAR "officials" budgets
The knowledge required to cover 4 different classes, tools and time to run tech is probably the biggest racing side of the business cost a track faces besides payouts.
Ironically, the two tracks that are doing some tech is Sunset and Sauble. But one has a lack of knowledge or appropriate enforcement policies of the rules and the other is overturning decisions made by the technical inspectors by the track owners - or so states several posts recently published here.