NHRA has automatic cutoff devices on all the fuel and alcohol cars that will automatically kill the mag, shut the fuel off and throw the laundry out if it isn't all done by a certain point in the shutdown area. Not sure what that would do to a bike but for cars its a no brainer. Some crew chiefs have a remote control switch for their cars that if they see a hole out or something else a wry they can shut down the car from the starting line
And I have heard stories of big
TF multi car teams shutting one team member off early in favor of the other team member
Rumors abound, but it has clearly happened. I always go back to Ford at Le Mans in '66 with respect to stories like that.
The flip-side is the thought of other racers messing up a competitor's run with a modified garage door opener.
I think here, we're talking about an existential threat to the sport on the part of the BLM.
Which is the bigger threat - the BLM shutting it down completely, or somebody building a transmitter capable of shutting down a competitor in an amateur sport with no prize money?
If this technology is available, and the BLM finds out about it, and the SCTA doesn't even look into it, the BLM could make a reasonably valid argument that the racers aren't taking their safety concerns seriously.
The same might be said for the insurance underwriters:
"Hi, Lloyds of London? Yes, I represent a group of people who drive really fast across the desert, but due to the landlord's discontent with our safety procedures, we're now on probation with the Department of the Interior. Can you help us?"I think overseeing cheating is something SCTA can do, and should be held to task for. Fighting the Feds and being the apologist for knuckleheads is a battle I don't think the SCTA can win.