I just wanted to clear the air on what happened with our DQ in the CF race as there seems to be a LOT of speculation. We win as a team and we lose as a team. In post race impound we were found 5-6lbs light. The car weighed 1094 facing one direction and 1095 facing the opposite direction. When we saw the numbers we were very confused as to how the car could have come in that light as it "should" have come in at 1105+ as it did in impound after qualifing. JT and I looked at each other with disbelief as to what could have made the car come in at that low weight. At that point I remembered JT saying over the radio that he was pushed off track coming through T13 by a "treaded tire FF" after the restart. I asked him what kind of water temps he saw towards the end of the race and he said he saw 260F but it "started to come back down toward the end" I then went over to the car and looked in the radiator screen and saw it was packed with grass. My first thought was we must have pumped out a bunch of water and the extra fuel used for the checkered flag lap must have been the weight we "lost" We were told that the car was non compliant and could leave impound. We talked with the stewards in impound about what "may" have happened and was told that it didn't matter the car was "non compliant as raced" Ray and I towed the car back to the trailer as it didn't have enough fuel (VP12) left in it to even give a full bottle for the fuel sample which was taken, Most likely due to the extra checker lap taken. JT stayed in impound to try and plead his case some more. As I got to the trailer, JT came running up from impound and said the stewards wanted the car back in impound. We towed it back down and put the car back on the scales where it weighed 1095 again. We were told to take the car off the scales and "see if it takes any water" Prior to putting any water in the car, a steward weighed the gallon jug of water we were going to add to make sure it was real water and not clear liquid lead or something. I then started to pour. The car took the full gallon and a half a gallon (from the water tap next to impound) more. We then put the car back on the scales where it came in at 1105lbs. At that point, thinking we would be shown some mercy but still feeling like crap we were told that "the penalty would stand" and we should protest the stewards decision. We filed a protest. The protest was not well founded and we did not appeal the decision as we just didn't have the time or focus to do it. We turned our focus to the DB6 as we were NOT going to make the FF grid if we spent anymore time beating a dead horse. That's what happened, Period.
All of us on the team feel like crap about this but we are all provided a rule book as part of our membership in SCCA. The rules state that the car must weigh 1100lbs minimum as raced.
Congrats go out to Nicky Coello who drove one hell of a race and to his crew who deserve the win