[Justin Stiltner]

I can understand about the food part of it, IE bringing in mcdonalds, however candy should be ok, and water should always be allowed. As far as the machening goes, welding I can see not allowing, however we have never seen any sort of grinding area at the vcu regional, everyone should know the risks of being in the pit area, and you assume theise risks when you go in. As faras the brazeing/soldering, brazeing im so so on, however soldering should be allowed its crazy to have to wait on the machene shop driver, (you cant transport yourself) travel to machene shop, then wait for 15 min. for a machenest to become free to make one tiny braze, and from what ive heard from some other teams that used some of theise services apparently the machene shop person dident know what they were doing and ended up filling the teeth of the gear they were brazeing full of brazeing rod, that team then spent hours fileing it back out of the gear teeth. If they want to keep the pit rules in their current form, I think that mobil machene shops should be allowed, granted the team takes all risks involved with operating this and first wouldent be lible, but for the teams that have the facilities and other teams that may recive help from them, let them do it.

On the subject of noise makers, allow them in the stands, ect, but limit their useage in the pit area. Baiscally I think first needs to take away some of the manpower trying to micromanage us and move it over to other areas. I say this because I know first istsself is small but it has taken 2 weeks to get the mmh order form out, and this has hurt my team Severely and im shure some others. I personallly think the rules as they were in 2001 or so were good enough. OK im done ranting now.