Originally posted by Captain
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The safety rules are, as they say, written in blood and that's not much of an exaggeration. If something goes wrong the safety group will analyze the event and try to determine if it could have been prevented. If yes, a new rule is worked over and eventually adopted.
As far as the class rules there is a structure of firstly engine size and configuration. You have to designate the displacement (they check it at the end of the meet at Bonneville) and whether running gas of fuel (N2O is fuel), as well as whether or not the engine is NA or blown. Other than that nobody cars what camshaft, how many carbs, etc. you're running - that's up to you. Also a part of the class rules is the body class. Is it a roadster, streamliner, lakester, etc. All of these are carefully spelled out in the rule book. My job at Bonneville was to check the "body cert" to make sure that the body met class requirements and I also checked the cars running gas classes to make sure their fuel tanks were sealed so that nobody could have slipped fuel into the tank.
Like I said - complicated!
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