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New racers association being formed to oppose SCORE scandal
In a move that has the potential to rock off-road racing, a new racers association is in the process of being formed. The PENALIZED RACERS ALLIANCE, is "a coalition urging action by SCORE International to have a competition review of how the scoring of the 500 went down".
Formed recently by Andy Kirker, he said, "It's just a name, but is does cover about 90% of us. The main thing is that I doubt anyone is happy about the way things happened and now there will be a larger group to talk to SCORE International instead of a couple of random individual phone calls". Citing the recent SCORE International scandal at the Baja 500 Kirker said, "I feel we all got penalized."
Could this be the start of the long awaited racers association that many in off-road have been waiting for? Many badly needed associations were formed around a single issue that damaged specific peoples interests. Calling everybody racing with SCORE International, "cheaters", is certainly game. The recent SCORE scandal did just that.
The recently formed short course racers association has been successful at addressing issues dealing with both professional and amateur shortcourse racers. Many believe a racers association is long overdue and it was simply a matter of time before some calamatous event happened to bring the racers together.
Associations, effectively join the common interests of many different people together for a common, mutual benefit. A single voice, speaking for the racers would also benefit SCORE International, simplifying its communications for racing events.
They have produced a petition to begin their organizing:
"We the undersigned have participated in the 2009 SCORE Baja 500 as a racer, chase crew or card carrying member of SCORE-International and object to the procedure in which penalties were handed out to 90% of the entrants. We believe the manner by which these actions were taken by SCORE have been detrimental to the sport of off-road racing. We support the idea of having an immediate competition review board meeting to review the scoring of the 2009 Baja 500. We approve of a board comprised of active competitors and SCORE officials to collectively work together to solve these issues and further define the procedures with clarity for scoring future races."
Petition produced: http://www.gopetition.com/online/29055.html
Formed recently by Andy Kirker, he said, "It's just a name, but is does cover about 90% of us. The main thing is that I doubt anyone is happy about the way things happened and now there will be a larger group to talk to SCORE International instead of a couple of random individual phone calls". Citing the recent SCORE International scandal at the Baja 500 Kirker said, "I feel we all got penalized."
Could this be the start of the long awaited racers association that many in off-road have been waiting for? Many badly needed associations were formed around a single issue that damaged specific peoples interests. Calling everybody racing with SCORE International, "cheaters", is certainly game. The recent SCORE scandal did just that.
The recently formed short course racers association has been successful at addressing issues dealing with both professional and amateur shortcourse racers. Many believe a racers association is long overdue and it was simply a matter of time before some calamatous event happened to bring the racers together.
Associations, effectively join the common interests of many different people together for a common, mutual benefit. A single voice, speaking for the racers would also benefit SCORE International, simplifying its communications for racing events.
They have produced a petition to begin their organizing:
"We the undersigned have participated in the 2009 SCORE Baja 500 as a racer, chase crew or card carrying member of SCORE-International and object to the procedure in which penalties were handed out to 90% of the entrants. We believe the manner by which these actions were taken by SCORE have been detrimental to the sport of off-road racing. We support the idea of having an immediate competition review board meeting to review the scoring of the 2009 Baja 500. We approve of a board comprised of active competitors and SCORE officials to collectively work together to solve these issues and further define the procedures with clarity for scoring future races."
Petition produced: http://www.gopetition.com/online/29055.html
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Permalink Reply by Joan Forsythe on
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WOW - maybe RG will get his 1st back! Joan
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Permalink Reply by Rene Hernandez on
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hahaha no, i don't think so about RG get his 1st place back its impossible no body know the history between the BFG guys and Sal Fish haha
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on
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I'm not convinced that the results of the Baja 500 will be reverted back to the original results, but hopefully some of the issues SCORE has been having with enforcing rules may be resolved by the time of the Primm, or at the very least the Baja 1000.
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Permalink Reply by jeff kammann on
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The main issue is timely results. as of 7/2/09 our class still DOES NOT have results and i really don't expect them till next week.
Heres an idea. Have the race awards ceremony at the following race.
im really not sure if i want to sign petition until i know how we placed.??? -
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is that a contestant review board? i thougt score had a panel that was made up of score workers and unbiast contestants.
do you think this will really speed up results?
have you seen the way score is coming up with thier speed penalties? if you drive 61mph on the pavement for those 15 miles your penalty will be roughly 75 minutes. they have over 150 IRC waypoints that they check individually for speed and then calculate the penalty 30 seconds for every mile an hour over 60. i dont think they have a computer that calculates this for them.
I am sure whoever is figuring this is sick of it by now. 230 down just 46 to go. -
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I didn't see to many, OK there were no big names on the petition. Don't they need some recognizable people to make a success of it?
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