Formula E Hydro from Oroville,CA 6/7/09

[Jeff Akers]

sponson view from my Formula E Hydro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kIlVoMsKc

Enjoy

[blueskyracer]

Jeff, Nice video. The weather and conditions looked great. We just got our camera and will try her out this weekend at Banks Lake Washington.

[sam]

That's awesome Jeff!

I linked it on BRF and Screamandfly

[HRTV]

sponson view from my Formula E Hydro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kIlVoMsKc

Enjoy

Jeff,

Outstanding camera placement! looks like you might be the winner for video of the month I will add the clip to the HRTV player a bit later tonight.

[pro350hydro]

Cool video. I see that you lost a mirror after a couple of laps. Did you not buy the "special" FE mirrors? j/k

[pro350hydro]

Jeff,

Out of curiosity, when you lost that mirror while racing, and it was not in place after the heat for tech, did you get dq'ed?

How would this work at the Divisionals, or even at the Nationals??? I'm not trying to start a Safety battle about mirrors, just wondering how the MORC would deal with this? I have known people to get dq'ed after a heat, even though they were legal before a heat (different issues) so I'm wondering about this since it's a safety issue.

Mike

[Joe J]

Mike:

I was inspecting at Oroville, and saw that Jeff did have mirrors before the racing started. With that in mind, I saw no reason to DQ him.

Jeff,

Out of curiosity, when you lost that mirror while racing, and it was not in place after the heat for tech, did you get dq'ed?

How would this work at the Divisionals, or even at the Nationals??? I'm not trying to start a Safety battle about mirrors, just wondering how the MORC would deal with this? I have known people to get dq'ed after a heat, even though they were legal before a heat (different issues) so I'm wondering about this since it's a safety issue.

Mike

[pro350hydro]

Mike:

I was inspecting at Oroville, and saw that Jeff did have mirrors before the racing started. With that in mind, I saw no reason to DQ him.

Joe
That is great news. I just hope this will hold with other inspectors at a National event. It would be ashame for someone to get dq'ed over these kinds of problems.

Hope all is well

[Jeff Akers]

Jeff,

Out of curiosity, when you lost that mirror while racing, and it was not in place after the heat for tech, did you get dq'ed?

How would this work at the Divisionals, or even at the Nationals??? I'm not trying to start a Safety battle about mirrors, just wondering how the MORC would deal with this? I have known people to get dq'ed after a heat, even though they were legal before a heat (different issues) so I'm wondering about this since it's a safety issue.

Mike

It's a great question Mike, I suspect it would (at this point) be up to the inspector...I wonder if these kinds of issues were even thought of when the rule was made at the National meeting.... and Joe,thanks for using good logic in making your decision.

Unfortunately I may have to sit out the next race,as I didn't buy any replacement mirrors (Yeah,I know you have to have two of everything in racing) but doubt I will get one in time. We will try and find something though.

[David_L6]

I like that! Thanks for posting that Jeff.