[Graham]

 Hello, just after mid day on Saturday and at last the final Team cars arrived.

So to the Scrutineering Reports below:

Class A - Cannonball Run

   

Class B- Pan American

   

Class C - Classic Trans Am & NASCARs

   

Class D - Modern Trans Am & NASCARS

   

Comments
Overall most cars were compliant to the rules, as usual the slot guide dimensions in some cases are a cause of potential concern, as with this Proxy some stages will involve shallow track slots or acute bends. So although I have checked all the cars appear to be able to run on my SCX/Scalextric Sport track sections, I would not be overly confident that some cars will not struggle on a couple of stages. I only needed to trim down a couple of slot guides (with their teams approval) when I found that the guides were too deep to run without catching on the bottom of the track. In the cases where the dimensions were out of specification but the cars still appeared to run on the track section I did not intervene. But there is still a potential risk that either these cars might be slower as a result of the guide depth or worse in that they just will not be able to be run on the plastic track stages with shallow slot guides. In this case I will instruct the Host to declare a DNF result for these cars. But there will be no additional penalty applied as these cars could effectively be penalising themselves.
Other issues
We have a couple of more serious non-compliance issues, over spec motors in class B &C and one car with very wide tyres in class D. I had a discussion with these teams in regard to the respective issues. It is obvious that these was more accidental than intentional, so I will allow the cars to run but will look to apply a penalty at the end of the series, to be decided later depending on if the cars are seen to have gained an unfair advantage.