Hey, T3! (Barber spoilers)

 I was wondering if you were up there this weekend. Haven't checked in
on the group in awhile and didn't know if you had travel plans or not.
Hope you had a nice trip. The weather was beautiful this weekend,
anyway.
Were you positioned to see the Hacking/May thing happen? That was
wild. Glad nobody appeared to be hurt. My step-son and his wife
dropped in on their way back from their first anniversary trip and
while showing them out I missed a few minutes. What was the rule that
kept Jamie out of the restart that he was so pissed off about?

Are you planning to go to ATL in Sept? It's early enough yet that I
might start trying to put a trip together myself. Been too busy at
work up to now to try for Barber.

 What the rule book said is the bike must remain in the pit lane, that would
be either cold pit or hot pit. If they wheeled it back into the paddock, it
would be DQ'd .

The thing is, even if they let Hacking out there on his original bike, he
would be starting from the last row on the grid because he caused the red
flag.

The rule on starting on your backup bike, only applies to the "original"
start,  not on a restart.

 On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:07:38 GMT, Ron@Somewhere.com wrote:


Ah, so! So he was bent about nothing, then. Frustrated, I'm sure, but
rules is rules. I hated it for him, but shit happens...

 

thing is it wasn't a restart. The first race didn't go the distance required
for a legal start. It was a whole new race.
So it didn't matter where the back up bike was. Take it though tech again
and you are good to go...
Once a race has started, that rule applies.But there was never an official
race.
A question I have is where the race director was. He should have been on pit
lane explaining things, not having tech do it...

 

Heh, at the "time" I was thinking the same thing, it was kinda like a
paradox, or somethin'..


Yeah, like that's gonna happen! Just because someone's a race director
doesn't make them completely stupid! With a deal like that pit lane is not
the place to be, unless of course you want to get your ass whipped and
especially so when you have to defend a rather dubious/spurious position as
that was. If it had been me, I damn would have had someone else (try) to
explain it!
The green came on, that, I assume, was the AMA's bottom line. It was an
unfortunate deal for sure, but I really feel they handled it
correctly...(Mark, don't stroke out!)