June Sprints and Spark Plugs
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:44 am
Greetings all...
As many of you have heard, we were disqualified at the Sprints from our 3rd place finish due to unapproved spark plugs.
It turns out we had three Motorcraft AGSF 34 pp plugs, and one Motorcraft AGSF 34 C in the car. The platinum, or "pp" plugs are not allowed. Erik has allowed that the platinum plugs shouldn't create a performance advantage, but the letter of the law must be observed.
The spark plugs are one area of the car where I've paid little attention and if I were prepping the car I may not notice whether the plugs are platinum or not. I might only check that they are Motorcraft AGSF 24 or 34, and not necessarily notice whether or not they are platinum.
I would urge everyone out there to check your plugs and make sure you don't have these platinum plugs installed by mistake. I believe Lars' guys replaced one of the plugs because it got damaged, and that happened to be the only legal plug in the engine. No one seems to know when the platinum plugs had been installed.
I do want to applaud Erik and his team for keeping us all on a level playing field, even if I'm the one taking the hit. This is a class where you really feel like you've done something as a driver when you win one of these races, and keeping all the cars equal means the driver makes most of the difference.
Hearing of someone being disqualified makes for uncomfortable news, and I wanted everyone to know what happened.
Carry on.......
Jeff
As many of you have heard, we were disqualified at the Sprints from our 3rd place finish due to unapproved spark plugs.
It turns out we had three Motorcraft AGSF 34 pp plugs, and one Motorcraft AGSF 34 C in the car. The platinum, or "pp" plugs are not allowed. Erik has allowed that the platinum plugs shouldn't create a performance advantage, but the letter of the law must be observed.
The spark plugs are one area of the car where I've paid little attention and if I were prepping the car I may not notice whether the plugs are platinum or not. I might only check that they are Motorcraft AGSF 24 or 34, and not necessarily notice whether or not they are platinum.
I would urge everyone out there to check your plugs and make sure you don't have these platinum plugs installed by mistake. I believe Lars' guys replaced one of the plugs because it got damaged, and that happened to be the only legal plug in the engine. No one seems to know when the platinum plugs had been installed.
I do want to applaud Erik and his team for keeping us all on a level playing field, even if I'm the one taking the hit. This is a class where you really feel like you've done something as a driver when you win one of these races, and keeping all the cars equal means the driver makes most of the difference.
Hearing of someone being disqualified makes for uncomfortable news, and I wanted everyone to know what happened.
Carry on.......
Jeff