Adelaide 500 - CAMS IOnvestigatory Findings

[RaceTime]

CAMS have just released this statement:

CAMS STATEMENT
2002 V8 Supercar Championship Series
Clipsal 500 race results final

CAMS has not received any appeals regarding the CAMS Inquiry findings thaT were handed down on 9 May and have confirmed that the amended Race Results from the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide are final.

The CAMS Inquiry found that the extra lap awarded to car 34 for having been incorrectly held behind the safety car at this year's Clipsal 500 was, in all the circumstances, an over compensation. The Tribunal reduced the allowance to half a lap, placing car 34 in 6th position.

Under the provisions of CAMS National Competition Rule 171, the inquiry was held on 15 April 2002 to investigate the Stewards determination made during Leg 1 of the 2002 Clipsal 500 to credit car 34 with a lap following the deployment of the safety car.

Amended race results are as follows:
1. Car #1 - Mark Skaife, Holden Racing Team
2. Car #51 - Greg Murphy, K-Mart Racing Team
3. Car #4 - Marcos Ambrose, Pirtek Racing
4. Car #00 - Craig Lowndes, Ford/Mobil/Dunlop
5. Car #16 - Steven Richards, Castrol Perkins Race Team
6. Car #34 - Garth Tander, Garry Rogers Motorsport
7. Car #66 - Tony Longhurst, Betta Electrical

The finishing positions from 8th place onwards remain unchanged.

[RaceTime]

So now we wait and see if Gary Rogers initiates lega action as he said he would.

[elephino]

Still waiting...

[RaceTime]

It'll come - besides - sharks go to sleep at 5pm on Fridays...have to wait till Monday now.

[Crash Test]

Hrmmmm, wouldn't appealing the decision be the normal thing to do??

[RaceTime]

Crash - you haven't read the report have you - you naughty boy you......It's somewhere around the last 3 or 4 pages of the findings.

The time for appealing has finished, which is why the CAMS media release.....

[Crash Test]

Yeah, I loaded it up, cut off my net connection so I could read it, then went off on a tangent and left the computer for the week

[RaceTime]

Not feeling well lately Crash? You don't sound well....I gather you glossed over the complete section about extending the appeal time then?

[Crash Test]

I saw nothing.... right royal Cody Crocker....

[note: after Canberra, it's Cody Crocker, not Barry Crocker ]

[BFC]

re safety cars stuff ups jerk of course got it wrong at 6hr relay at Winton last year imagine working out correct positions in a relay race if some teams changed over while they sorted it out

[RaceTime]

I understand more than the joker got it wrong in that event - it is impossible to get proper outright results from it as well - first time since 1986 no outright results have been made available.

And the reason? They didn't bother checking the electronic timing lines before the event and guess what wasn't working properly?? (Which the track had been made aware of over the previous 2 years!)

[Morris 1100]

I know who won in 1990.........Me

[Amaroo Park]

Originally posted by Morris 1100
I know who won in 1990.........Me

Was there many other teams in the race?

[Amaroo Park]

Originally posted by BFC
re safety cars stuff ups jerk of course got it wrong at 6hr relay at Winton last year imagine working out correct positions in a relay race if some teams changed over while they sorted it out

They have trouble with correct positions in a relay race at Winton. In the 24hour in 1992 there handicapper had the team I was driving in in 4th place at the mid way mark. We went back and worked it that we where only 1/2 lap behind the leader on handicap. We tried to point it out to the team who thought they where running second but the told us we where F****** wrong. With 2 hours to go the stewards corrected the handicap and low and behold we where second. Unforunatly thats where we stayed until the finish only 30seconds behind the winner.