Sparky the extended rant was meant as not a sob story, but to note that we all have had problems on the salt, sometimes mechanical, sometimes self caused, sometimes by other racers acting like dickheads, sometimes by SCTA officials over stepping their bounds, but no matter what, we are all there to race, and after reading the first eight or ten posts (including a few of yours) Everything had been said at least four or five times and the topic seemed to be looking for someone to hang.
What I was attempting to point out, however long winded, was simply "lets let the SCTA official's get to the bottom of it, thats their job (even if it was one of their own), and get back to racing or at least talking about it, rather in adding more wood to the fire. Bob