Originally Posted by Time Attack

Hi guys,

Just to bring you up to speed from our side.

None of the Time Attack Pro (or Club for that matter) competitors have put in or lodged a complaint about Andrews car, we received his application last week by phone and he took the place of Phil Gooriah who could not run, Andrew entered as per our entry rules when a competitor cannot compete for whatever reason and paidthe entry fee directly to Phil. We did at the time ask Andrew if his car met the Time Attack rules and regulations and that if he has not read them to read them and let us know, he said his car did and we accepted his entry on this basis.

When we looked on his website out of curiosity (and to get some pics) we had a bit of a shock as to the level of build that has gone into it (absloutely awesome by the way) and immediately phoned Andrew up to talk it through.

Our thoughts now are now to invite Andrew along to Knockhill to discuss the issues with our technical guy and his technical guy. We are certainly not looking to kick anyone out once accepting an entry and perhaps we were at fault for not in the first instance asking for technical pics, Andrew did enter Time Attack at Knockhill last year and is known to us because of this so we did not think we would come across this problem. Also we would like to state that we do not feel Andrew has gone out of his way to swerve or abuse the rules but perhaps did not understand them clearly at the time.

We understand that we may have the odd grey area within our regs but this is to ensure it is not bogged down under masses of paperwork and red tape that afflicts other championships and series's. Also cost is an issue and this is an area where we try to control it as much as possible whilst again not bogging it down, its a hard balance and one that we work hard on especially to ensure the Pro cars are as streetable as possible, not legal but streetable if that makes sense. Our tech regs are to be tweaked for 2008 as this is a growing Series in its second year and will also be taking into account a broader range of compliant vehicles and classes whilst working hard to keep it as simple as possible.

To finish I can assure you we are working to find a solution to this problem behind the scenes as we too want to see Andrew run, whether he will be in a position to take Series points or even run we cannot say at this time and as mentioned we will work hard to see Andrew compete one way or another as its plain to see he is a spassionate to enter as we are to run the Series.

What we cannot have though is situation where it gets out of hand with all manner of thoughts, ideas and conspiracy theories being banded around, this is why we have taken the time out to respectfully come on here and chat with you guys.

At this time we cannot comment on any other areas or issued raised.

You will be able to get in from around 2pm it says on the tickets but if you cannot get in earlier you will have only missed untimed warm up.

Regards,

Originally Posted by Stavros

Really? Well he was in Rd1+2, and he not the only tuner in club class by far.

And its not only tuners in pro either.

Which kinda explains why they called club and pro, and not tuner and privateer eh?

Originally Posted by CossieRich

Euan and Lambchop take the abuse quite well. Maybe you should seek their help in being a bit more relaxed.

Originally Posted by rapidcossie

Just to help people that are going to spectate...

there is a SIDC track morning running from 9-12 the morning of the time attack....

nothing stopping people from heading in then I dont think

Ill be there for this as I have a wedding starting at 1 pm so will be away before the time attack proper but see this as a way fro me to still check out some of the cars