penalty of 192 points

[HellionXR6T]

Thanks FORDTECH, will do

[xr6t~>]

look what I found on the v8central forums./...

from http://www.motorsportforums.com

Reigning V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose has been docked 192

championship points and his Stone Brothers team fined $10,000 for a

technical breach following today's sixth round of the series at Queensland

Raceway.

The penalty means Ambrose (872) has forfeited his lead in the V8 Supercar

Championship Series, moving from first to fourth on the ladder. Steven

Richards (1006) has now assumed the championship lead from Jason Bright

(951) and Rick Kelly (930).

Ambrose will still be recognised as the winner of the 2004 Queensland 300.

Despite winning the race, stewards later found his team to be in breach of

technical rules C8.11.8 and C.11.9 relating to the control ECU loom

schematic diagram as contained in schedule four.

Stone Brothers Racing team manager Ross Stone agreed to a breach of the

rules that was discovered at post-race scrutineering.

Stewards found that the breach was unintentional. They also found there was

an apparent lack of advantage from the breach.

The Stone Brothers Racing team have appealed the decision. This appeal is

set down for the V8 Supercar Court of Appeal in Melbourne on Thursday.

[FORDTECH]

Just read that.

Edited 04/07/04 12:12 PM by FORDTECH

[xr6t~>]

hehe..beat u to it.. :lol:

[XR6_ED]

wouldn't ingall car be in the same boat then?

[JJ_Phantom]

It's pretty safe (and sad) to say that if the appeal isn't successful - this year is gone. You don't drop the worst round anymore

[ktford]

So will there be any ore info to do with "the loom?" Unintentional & non-advantageous, crikey

Scotty

[XR6_ED]

If it is a safety concern I could understand, if it was a perormance advantage I could understand, but it is"NON ADVANTAGEOUS" so the 192 point penalty is a bit rich..This could hurt more than just stone brother , its going to hurt avesco as well(in the hip pocket) as fan wont bother going the rest of the races for the season...But now ambrose has nothing to loose he might go like a bat out of hell.........as if he already wasn't

[Buf-Phoon]

See what hppens when you dont have an engineers certificate :lol:

[Ford_Power]

This is BS. Cameron McConville got only a 72 point penalty for having an underweight crankshaft at Barbagallo - and that breach resulted in a performance advantage.

Seeing as the stewards acknowledge that the SBR breach would not have result in any performance advantage, the fine +192 points docked is excessive.

Ross