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Angie MacEwen
Participant

A couple of things here. I just spoke to Dennis. He would come on and respond, and he may later, but for now, let me relay some of what he said.

First, Zach’s motor did not have a seal on it. If it had, Dennis would not have broken it.

Next, it is not Dennis’ normal practice to break the seals. He is in agreement with most of you, that under normal circumstances, the seal would be honored. In this case, he had a suspect motor, and he felt it necessary to open it up. Why was it suspect? Because at prior events he witnessed that driver/kart/motor to be not doing great. At this event, he was way out front. Now I know you will argue that if you go back and look at the times from previous events, and take into consideration the different tracks, etc, etc, that he might have found information to show there was nothing to be concerned about. But Dennis saw what he saw, and felt he needed to tear it down, that is what we hired him for.

Dennis wanted me to be sure to tell all of you Rotaxians that he has no intention of breaking seals just because he can. This was a special case. And on that note, I hope nobody would ask the regulations to be changed to where he can’t break a seal if he feels the need to.

Angie