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Re: Bumper Material

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Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure View Post
This one's a real stretch. Even if you can find a way to overcome the R21 problems (BUMPERS must be constructed in accordance with Fig 4-8), you still face this issue:

I know this rains on everyone's parade.
To be fair, we did this testing before the season even started, and made the decision not to use anything before the rules came out. I know other teams have tried to use sailkote in the past, but we wanted to collect data on what the effect would be. It was mainly for experimental purposes. I probably should have phrased it better.

Asking the question on the Q+A would likely result in a ruling against sailkote, so asking the Q+A "to be safe" wasn't exactly the right choice of words. That we would ask the Q+A before proceeding is probably a better description of how we would treat the situation, if it ever came up.
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