Quote Originally Posted by AMCO72 View Post
I didn't know that was requirement of Skope entry. Do you mean 4 meetings in total, or 4 meetings within a certain time frame? You might only do one meeting a year, say the Skope, which is not much better than none at all. And cheque book racers......yes well, that is now par for the course. We all get a certain amount of work done by professionals, as there would be few of us capable of tackling every job in a rebuild. I am lucky in that respect for I have my 'man' to do most stuff for me. Quite often he pays the bill as well, so I am really fortunate!!!! Dodgy repairs etc don't always show up at scrutineering, and Jac Mac has discovered 'things' that have escaped the eagle eye of previous scrutiny. As I said, I would hope that we put some value on our own skins and did things properly, but I have seen repairs done at meetings after crashes that would not stand too much inspection, and safety is compromised.
If all the rules/guidelines were followed as per the MSNZ book these faults would probably have been 'found', if your car is involved in an incident where components are bent or damaged ,you the owner/driver are supposed to re- present the car at scrutineering before racing again, in the cases I have observed this either did not happen or the recheck did not uncover the damage, further competition in the cars with the bent/broken parts caused further damage to the point where the cars were virtually undriveable & the owners approached me to try & diagnose the problems, it was obvious that several attempts had been made with some scary stuff like rod ends with only 3 or 4 threads engaged, heaps of spacing washers / longer bolts to get suspension parts to line up etc...the list goes on... gets pretty hard to find the root cause unless you strip the whole car down. Part of the issue I feel comes from owners/drivers who really dont want to take ownership of the problem...lets say you do the Skope series for example...you get the initial scruitineer check @ ChCh, you are then not reqd to be rechecked until the next meeting after Teretonga( Assuming ChCh, Levels, Teretonga) which might a club meeting in september etc, now if you have been involved in a minor incident that was ' fixed on race day' without a 'recheck' at the time the chances of finding the damaged component gets pretty slim.