Norm Peterson
corner barstool sitter
Time to push for 13.9.G to be rewritten - or at least interpreted - to allow modifications to defeat ESC/TC in cars that do have the OE ability to be turned off just like such is already allowed for cars that don't have that OE capability.
The logic being that if ESC/TC can turn themselves back on, you do not have the same level of 'defeat' available to you as drivers whose cars do not have any OE ability to turn them off but were granted the 13.9.G allowance. If you have to shut down and re-start in order to return the ESC/TC to 'off', you're put in exactly the same situation as not having OE ability to turn them off at all . . . just midway through your run.
Let's put everybody in 'Street' on the same footing as the driver in the 25 y/o car that never had ESC or TC at all.
I'd write the letter myself if I was still autocrossing.
Norm
The logic being that if ESC/TC can turn themselves back on, you do not have the same level of 'defeat' available to you as drivers whose cars do not have any OE ability to turn them off but were granted the 13.9.G allowance. If you have to shut down and re-start in order to return the ESC/TC to 'off', you're put in exactly the same situation as not having OE ability to turn them off at all . . . just midway through your run.
Let's put everybody in 'Street' on the same footing as the driver in the 25 y/o car that never had ESC or TC at all.
I'd write the letter myself if I was still autocrossing.
Norm
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