Car cover penalty in Lucas Oil

[Nasty55]

Not afraid of anything. If you're Bloomer or Lanigan or whoever, if you found a little something, why should you have to leave it in plain sight for the world to see? It's your dam car. Let the tech guys see it, everyone else, do your homework.

I agree with you 100% CNB Fan this has got to be the dumbest fukn rule ive ever seen or heard of... H3ll if ya design something new and don't want to show it to the world you shouldn't have to.. The only people who should see it are the crew and the tech people but nooooooo they have to go and throw this dumbazz rule out there now....

[JCSullivan00]

What about when it's cold? It's pretty standard practice to cover up the back half of the car and direct a heater underneath.

[pink floyd]

we simply stand around the car and deter people. we always have one person on watch and have never needed a tarp.

[*Bandit*]

Do you think it will stay enforced? Was it in the rule book at the beginning of the season Oh wait this is the beginning of the season. I think a lot of the drivers will complain and it will go by the way side eventually but I guess we will see.

[ClampedUp]

This sounds like a fix for a lazy or uninformed tech crew. The real question, should be, is it really good for the sport to stop innovation? Do you want cookie cutter race cars like NASCAR?

No, it sounds like a rule made for the lazy whiny azz drivers and teams that don't put the time in the shop and track testing and trying to come up with their own speed secrets and expect someone else to do the work for them.

[MI Dirt Fan]

You'll now see everyone backing their car into the pit stall. Guys will park next to each other even more than before. I don't see it as a big deal.

I think most already do?

[cgrace]

pits are place of business other businesses won't let competitors in their shops to c stuff y should drivers stupid rule just tech the cars other crews check tires take photos all kinds of crap shouldnt be allowed

[hpmaster]

Funny how the same guys that say a chassis doesn't make a differance and that it is all the driver are now crying about the big boys not being able to cover up their "secrets."

[mdizzle]

so now they'll just leave shocks off and not adjust till closer to race time and will see more tires on cars in the pits.

[SuperEight]

Outrageously retarded generation

Long overdue!! I applaud them for doing this.
Per Dirt on Dirt racewire for tonight's race @ East Bay.
No covering wheel openings or rear of car while in the pits. If they choose to, the car must weigh 50# more. Teams will get 1 warning.

Dumbest rule ever.

So how's this work? Whine enough about some BS and you get your way. The tech guys and crew are all that need to see the car. Anyone else's prying eyes better just do their homework. Others do this too, but we all know who it's targeted at. Just a dumb rule. Let's not do actual tech, let's outlaw car covers. So we can tattle tale on one another like grade school.

I could not agree more with you on this. I liked it back in the 90's when everybody had covers with the sponsors on it, more exposure. It was also cool trying to get a glimpse under a car before the crew could throw the cover on. The tech guy and the crew are the only ones who need access under the car, everybody else should have to pay a protest fee. Whats funny is on the video from Golden Isles after Landers broke a wheel they zoomed in on the broken left rear and you could see under his Sweet/Bloomquist car and it was surprisingly basic, the opposite of exotic. Made me laugh at how much it reminded me a lot of the last Barry Wright Bloomquist drove, in 1997!! Haters gonna hate and whiners gonna stay in the tech mans ear.

[hpmaster]

So now you will spray paint the underside of your car camoflage in random paterns of flat black, grey and brown.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

No, it sounds like a rule made for the lazy whiny azz drivers and teams that don't put the time in the shop and track testing and trying to come up with their own speed secrets and expect someone else to do the work for them.

Most definitely. He's doing this, he's doing that, eww, you better take his car covers away. LMFAO

[hpmaster]

If you are worried about what your competitors are doing, you are likely the guy missing things like a bad heim or a bent ball joint anyways.

[FlatTire]

lol, this is good stuff. Cover or not, just how many times did our boy Bloomer run his FRIC system thru tech and they had no clue what they were looking at??? and thats with the freaking covers off!!! <----This is the real issue.

Somebody found out about what Bloomer was doing last fall when he got on a roll, got mad because they were getting beat, then ratted Bloomer out. During the offseason somebody gave the tech man a little schooling and they were all set to catch the big bad Black Sunshine. The trap was set before Golden Isles even began.

Outlawing/penalizing the car covers won't make the whiner who got all this started any faster! If they ever want to get ahead of technology, the tech man needs to be as smart & as knowledgeable as the best racer. I haven't seen one yet who is.

[race21j]

As the rule states no corving the rear wheels or back of the car.Try this it covers the whole car. The crews could always say that they are afraid of rain.