Dear Angie;
First of all Seths motor was sealed. Seths was sealed by SSC, the importer of Rotax motors. Secondly, you and I know that this was done to Seth mainly because you, Dennis, and the Ray’s view my tearing them down as a pain in your ass’s. What I would like to get straight is this; If you checked out the last 2 races at I.M.I. and the last 1 at Grand Junction, my son Seth was the quickest kart in qualifying. At the first race at I.M.I. Seth out qualified everyone by almost 7/10 of a second. Seth did not win because he had to slow down because his engine was overheating due to the extreme heat. I then learned that it was legal to put a larger capacity radiator on his kart and we haven’t had a problem with overheating. At the last race in Grand Junction my son cooked his brakes and didn’t have enough brakes to make it a race with the Kyle in final race, where he finished 2nd, which wasn’t to bad considering that in the heat race that Kyle drove into Seth from 5 to 6 kart lengths back and bent Seth’s axle and took himself completely out of the race. Seth still finished 3rd with his box stock, “un-blueprinted” motor with a bent axle. I don’t think that Kyle wrecked into Seth on purpose, I simply thought he used fairly poor judgement trying to make up 5 or 6 kart lengths in one corner. Kyle Ray and his father are very good competitors and Seth and I have looked forward to racing against them. I wasn’t picking on Kyle when I protested them at I.M.I. the first race. I was wrong because I was angry that the checkered flag was thrown at the beginning of the 19th lap and let my anger carry over into protesting Kyle’s engine for which I am very sorry for.
Sorry Mr. Ray and Family!!
That was the reason I went to Mr. Ray the following race and offered to reimburse him for what it cost him over and above the $150.00 protest fee I posted to have his engine teched. Mr. Ray told me then that he didn’t want the money. At the same time I apologized to him, his son and Trent from Mile Hi Karting. I thought everything was OK with them. I’m not picking on them or trying to make an enemy of them. I’m only trying to make sure that the rules are followed to the “T” as it should be.
Angie, I sent to you and Dennis an E-Mail approximately 3 weeks ago letting you know about the ruling that TAG USA made concerning the 2005 Parilla Leopard port height being illegal. You, nor Dennis never even acknowledged the E-Mail, so last Friday I called you to see if you had received my E-Mail. You said I don’t know and eventually said that you thought you got it. I then explained to you about the TAG USA ruling and you said you would talk to Todd Bellew about it, and that was the last I heard from you concerning the TAG USA ruling on the Parilla Leopard. Sunday morning I saw Dennis in the pits and tried to ask him about it and as usual he practically ignored me from his “high horse”. I was only trying to find out if he was aware of the ruling by TAG USA, which SKUSA follows. Again, I wasn’t trying to be a pain in anyones ass, I was only trying to make you all aware of the ruling by TAG USA as it relates to our CSC series, governed by SKUSA/TAG USA rules. I expected to get tore down this weekend after the way that Dennis ignored me trying to talk to him. All I was trying to do was find out and if necessary supply him with the rules from TAG USA in case he didn’t have them so that my son as a competitor is on a level playing field with the rest of the other competitors with different engines than ours. I don’t make the rules, I just want to make sure that they are fair across the board. My son Seth is not a rookie to kart racing and isn’t too bad a little racer. Mr. Ray and his son Kyle are very good racers and definetly the ones to beat, if you can, in the CSC series, and we have and are looking forward to competing against them. I don’t know them very well, but look forward to getting to know them in a better way.
Angie, if you called them after I talked to you on Friday and told them I was gonna tear them down. then you didn’t tell the truth. All I said was that I might if I felt they were running the 2005 Leopard with the unapproved/illegal port height that was posted on TAG USA’s web sight the past month. Once again, I was just trying to make everyone aware of the ruling by TAG USA so the playing field is level for all, not just for Seth and I and all competitors.
Mr. Ray, I don’t own a Kart shop, I simply work here basically for nothing, in hopes of some day owning a small part of the business. Again, I apologize if I have offended you, but I surely never meant to.
Sincerely,
Tim J. George
Gen. Mgr.
S.A.C. Motorsports
720-890-4099
Father of Seth A. Chapa