Sorry Mike,
I cannot stand by and let you or anyone else impugn your predecessor. I have been around Bonneville much longer than you, and unlike you have owned a car.
I realize he was not perfect and had distractors, but I came to respect the man and I hold him and his service to our sport with respect and thanks. He always showed me he cared about the people and cars and the records. I never saw him insult or accuse anyone. If he found a problem, it was discussed without rancor or personalities, or accusations of deliberate, outright cheating, NEVER. I think he knew he was dealing with honest racers, at heart, for the most part.
We do not run for money or trophies, only hats, time slips and bragging rights. Not the cutthroat NASCAR or any other high dollar series that maintain if you are not cheating you are not trying attitude. He also let the competition protest perceived issues. In the long run scheme of things most issues have a way of policing themselves. I see the racers as a varied family with common threads and a shared interest in making our sport better, not more contentious and unfriendly, but fair.
You were bounced for riding around the pits on your bicycle with a haughty, confronting attitude, and picking out infractions that were not infractions by the rule book, from thirty feet away and saying if that ever gets to "my impound" I will not pass it. You did not even get off you bicycle to really look at your perceived infraction close enough to tell it was or was not an infraction. That car in that configuration has held records for over twenty years at Bonneville. And why is it "Your Impound"? And you were bounced for picking out issues to bystanders and not talking, asking or explaining anything directly to a new team, at their first inspection, while going through tech, not impound, and not even realizing the car held records at Mirage for nearly twenty-five years in that configuration without any issues, protests or questions. I know, I know ...."read page nine of the rule book....These are two of the myriad reasons you were bounced from "Your Impound".
Also, your, " I'm the new sheriff in town strut" and condescending, I got the badge attitude, made you a bully not someone a lot of racers I have talked to, trusted or believed in. I am for one am very glad and relieved the SCTA Board bounced you. I hope the new person can restore the reason I came to be with the Bonneville family in the first place. A place we can meet and renew our common love of the place and wonderful people every time we are blessed to be there.