No such thing as a "pre-approval". Ask the Salt Cat guys about being "pre-approved" and then losing all their records after someone else realized what they were running was illegal. Any car can be protested no matter how much the committee chair or someone else has lead you to believe you're legal. As much as you want to believe, the committee chairs aren't the final word. I have a strong feeling that other members of the roadster committee won't be happy with your "chute fairings". All it will take is someone to protest the car and then this will go through the entire roadster committee for review to which they'll make a recommendation to the board and the board will make a final decision. You have a couple guys here already squawking and they're only a small portion of the entire RMR group - what do you think will happen when the car actually shows up for competition? There was a Corvette (I think) that ran a few years ago that had square tube exhaust with 8 tubes that ran all the way to the back of the car and all the tubes were welded together so the exhaust seconded as a belly pan. Guess what? Records pulled at board meeting after Speed Week. It can happen.
Saying that an aero feature is for safety is the biggest lie any racer ever told plain and simple. You spent all that time and money going to the wind tunnel in the interest of safety? GET REAL!! Your only interest (along with everyone else's) is to go faster! That's the same lie the guys pushing to allow wings on Comp Coupe's and Mod Roadster said - oh it's in the interest of safety. Ha more like in the interest of going faster. Maybe your car's too light and you can't get that power down and having 200 lbs of lift from the body isn't helping. Now that you've got more power, you need the aero to help get it to the ground so you can go FASTER. Your car is lakester long - was it really on the verge of spinning? There are cars with a lot more power and a lot less wheelbase that aren't spinning and going a lot faster. Hard to swallow that excuse.
You've gone so far to implement this fairing/spoiler that you're even running an extra parachute that isn't even required for the speeds you run just so you can fair it in to complete your spoiler. Let me guess - more safety?
For the record, I personally think it's an absolute abomination what some RMR guys have been allowed to get away with. IMO RMR's are the scurge of the roadster class. I actually personally don't care about RMR's. They can all go race each other in their pseudo-laksters with roadster quarters panels and I'll stick with real roadsters. Now don't get me wrong - some RMR's are more legit than others but there's simply too many that are so far out to lunch that it's not even worth caring about any more.
But it's nice to see a passionate and active conversation on the forum again.
