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Re: Front Bumpers
Posted by 'DCharity' on 26 May 2014 @ 20:50

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Interesting point Minisueg, noting drivers with regularly flattened front bumpers, but in reality I doubt if it would happen.
WHY?
For the simple fact that little or nothing seems to get done now about regular bad driving.
WHAT DO I MEAN?
It doesn't take long when visiting any particular club a few times to get to know the drivers you can't trust behing yours.
Too often (sometimes nearly every meeting) one certain driver will be shunting someone off, or commiting some other offence, sometimes being called before the Clerk, sometimes not, but never it seems do their antics decrease from one meeting to the next: a slap on the wrist and off they go again.
There appears to be at least one in most classes, and from what I've noticed, every driver and mechanic/dad knows who it is. With computer technology it shouldn't be too difficult to compile a record of this type of behaviour.

It's my view that the proposed fixing kit would bring troubles of its own in tesing the correct required parameters.
A couple spring immediately to mind:

1. How is the required impact force needed to dislodge the bumper to be checked?
2. The proposals state the hook shackles are to be hand tightened without the use of tools. Who's hand would that be, Arnold Schwarznegger's or the Sugar Plum Fairy?
3. The plastic material specified for the fittings is bound to indent eventually where it contacts with the metal bumper bars, and I bet it wouldn't be too long before some would be abraiding the bars/indenting the plastic or inventing some other devious means to prevent bumper displacement.
4. Impact required tested before and after each race? Will weather conditions be allowed for, wet/dry hot/cold? Bound to make some difference.

How about, again in my opinion, a more logical solution? Enforce existing rules, note regular offenders and have a roll-over recording system (not just if points are put on a license) where these people who spoil the sport are brought to book and dealt with: "shown the door" for example.
Dave.

Message Thread:

Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'Jeff Johnson' (23 May 2014 @ 17:21)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'BrianP' (23 May 2014 @ 18:46)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'Jeff Johnson' (23 May 2014 @ 19:07)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'Moonshine' (23 May 2014 @ 21:21)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'SLK' (23 May 2014 @ 22:04)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'BanzaiBoy' (23 May 2014 @ 23:21)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'buzzinrussell' (24 May 2014 @ 17:22)

what a joke! NT. by 'moondog78' (24 May 2014 @ 18:05)

Non MSA by 'bt3962' (25 May 2014 @ 4:10)

Re: Non MSA by 'Moonshine' (25 May 2014 @ 15:01)

Re: Non MSA by 'Racing393' (26 May 2014 @ 15:53)

Front Bumpers by 'Minisueg' (26 May 2014 @ 18:41)

Re: Front Bumpers by 'DCharity' << You are here!

Re: Front Bumpers by 'iant' (26 May 2014 @ 22:15)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'iant' (26 May 2014 @ 18:37)

Re: Cik/Fia release on Front fairings.. by 'RGRRob' (27 May 2014 @ 19:24)

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