[Graham]

 Good Morning

Scrutineer Report for Classic Le Mans (Class B)
   
Generally compliance to the rules was quite good, the idea in regard to setting wheel/tyres diameters and tyre widths is in order to keep the contenders cars relatively to scale and to give a fairly even playing field to the wide range of competing cars in this class. But also I have in mind the practical nature of running these Proxy's where time is quite restricting component of running 30-40 cars in a day. So I set "Rear tyre widths" marginally wider than to scale in order to offer better track stability to these classic cars. In reality this era of sports cars should have been max 7.5mm width according to CSCRA Rules. 

The late arrival of the Maserati A6 GCS of Oaktree Racers means that this chart has been updated, this car had a Slimline Scaleauto 25k rpm motor fitted, which is out of the specified range. So the car will be under investigation after the series has run.

And then there is the question whether you should measure "Overall tyre wall thickness" or "Tyre width when in contact with the track" ?  In my view the latter is more important in regard to competitive performance, so rightly or wrongly I have decided that this is my criteria, and in effect mostly this was complied with. One thing I would say is that many would disagree in regard to National Championships where overall tyre width is usually the measurement accepted. And it is probably true to say that overall tyre width is more accurate to measure using a caliper, than trying to measure contact surface area.

Amendment
I have reconsidered the above statement, and whilst the Administrator part of me wants to avoid controversy and satisfy the majority, the Scrutineer part  tells me that we should abide by conventional understanding of the rules applied. So I have done a U -turn and decided that "Overall Tyre wall Thickness" should prevail.

Therefore there will be a Review of the results at the end of the Series and should the offending cars (including my own) be seen to had gained an unfair  advantage over the compliant cars above. There will be a deduction of 1 point per Round deduction.
But there we go, let the debate commence..........