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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: For those who still don't get that the Honda doesn't offer an
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 20:13:56 -0700
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On 2024-10-09 19:28, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 10/4/2024 7:20 PM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-10-02 11:29, Alan wrote:
>>> ...ON THE TRACK:
>>>
>>> At the SCCA National Runoffs this year at Road America in Wisconsin:
>>>
>>> Fastest qualifier so far IS an FF Honda at 2:22.552.
>>>
>>> But second fastest is a FF Ford just .181 behind at 2:22.733.
>>>
>>> <https://cdn.connectsites.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/073/365/ 
>>> FF%20Runoffs2024%20Qual%202%20Provisional.pdf>
>>>
>>> And that's not even remotely a new Formula F chassis! The Swift DB6 
>>> chassis dates from 1991...that's 43 years ago!
>>>
>>> So why is the field mostly Hondas?
>>>
>>> Because (as I've explained before) time and money spent maintaining a 
>>> Formula F Kent in top shape can be spent on more profitable things.
>>>
>>
>> And, gee, what do you know?
>>
>> The "uncompetitive" Kent...
>>
>> ...won the 2024 SCCA National Runoffs in Formula F.
>>
>> Who'd have thought it?
>>
>> :-)
> 
> Really?
> 
> https://cdn.connectsites.net/user_files/scca/downloads/000/073/541/ 
> FF%20Runoffs2024%20Race%20Official.pdf
> 
> The # 5 car, the Kent, finished 8th in the official results, 1st in 
> Provisional Results
> 
> Position changed per: Car 5 - Moved behind #81 per SOM - GCR 6.11.1.D,
> Appendix P.5. Must have cheated to get moved down that far.
> 
> And the 5 car was the only Kent in the race.

What's extra hilarious is that they literally listed the rule infraction 
involved...

....but you just went with, "must have cheated".