Posted by Duncan Donuts p.s. please try not to follow this with a screed of "no he didn't/yes he did" messages about 79. I was just using that as an example to show how difficult it is to decide what is and isn't legal contact at Cowdenbeath.
on May 10, 2005, 1:11 pm, in reply to "Re: this weekend racing?"
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My understanding is that in F2s a push from behind into a corner should not be hard enough to send the car in front into the fence/wall, as this is deemed to be a deliberate fencing. The Racewall muddies the waters a bit because the racing line is so near the wall that even fairly minor contact can put a car in the wall. However, if the car behind is still pushing when the front car hits the wall, I would say that's a follow-in and so is definitely a deliberate fencing. The 187/480 incident looked like pay-back for something so we maybe shouldn't comment without knowing what prompted it. And remember, 79 "followed in" 477 at the beginning of the race when he took the Scottish title off him, but no action was taken. Also, the famous incident involving 33 and 721 a few years back might have resulted in a lengthy ban for 33 were it not for a Scottish board member pointing out that the contact required to put a car in the wall is much less at Cowdenbeath than at other tracks where the racing line is close to the kerb.
More contact is allowed in the saloons than in the F2s. I don't have a rule book to look at but I'm sure you're allowed to push hard enough into a bend to fence the car in front. I don't think a follow-in is allowed, but how would you enforce that at Cowdenbeath? With most hits the pushing car is still in contact with the car in front as it hits the wall, so I guess it's up to the steward to decide what is reasonable and what isn't.
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