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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Here's a dumb idea. What if there was one or two inspectors in queueing, asking teams what repairs or modifications they did? It would take for the most part 15 seconds per team. No big change would go unnoticed. No confusion over whether or not a team was reviewed by an inspector. No worrying about if you have to fill out paperwork for a tread change - just tell the queueing inspector and if you need to do something (paperwork, weight) they'll let you know.
Inspectors already hang around during the day anyway. With 10 inspectors for an event each would only need to do 2 hours a day tops. Maybe this is a lot to ask, but it's better than the current system, where a team can apparently go from being told that they don't have to do anything else and they're "good to go" to being disqualified.
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I think this is the system that Jon has in place which I think is a good idea. However this and all inspections really assume, perfect inspectors. I can't count the number of times teams go through multiple events with things that seem blatantly illegal to me when I inspect them later in the season. I think this will catch more issues but I think we need to make it a priority that teams be allowed to play in matches for items that don't give them advantage. Holding teams out of a match for small issues that aren't fully with in the rules, that are caught in queue, doesn't benefit anyone.