Pevely scales!

I guess your either a pet or your a flea lol good 4th post it does not matter who you know or who you are if it's not right and it is caught they will call you out on it. I went round and round with Ralph on the body my pure stock did I agree no did I change it yes. I guess if I wanted to I could of complained on a forum about how he picked on me (not directed at Justin) he did not post. More toward the fleas jumping on the bash bandwagon.
 
I was standing there at the scales last night when Justin come over the scales. I too like Justin and hated to see that he was light. But he didnt come on the scales one time and they DQ'ed him. The scale guy had him back off the scales 2 times and pull back on to make sure it was still showing light. Then the scale guy even had him back off the scales and he reset the scales to make sure. All times he came up light. All Allied was doing was what they are suppose to be doing. Once again its a crappy deal that he was light bc he was very fast in his heat race. But they did there job and tried numerous times to make sure something wasnt goofy with the scales.
 
I have found out that track scale do differ. Godfrey was 50 lbs difference than tri citys at times. When i switched first thing i did was scale when packing the track to get a guidline of what too expect. Actually surprised me as i just did it to make sure. I agree it ****s. But since its a mechanical piece they all do differ from track to track. Does ****......he was extremely fast!
 
Maybe he lost a piece of lead on the track that caused him to come up light or he just cut it to close.
 
i always scale every night,first night at bv was 2400,,friday 2409,,added fuel or led,,2455 after heat...i know the guys with ketros car were disapointed but the scale guy is a stright a shooter as they come
 
I mostly race at one track a week. Belleville. Even though they are the same scales, set in the same place every week, I still go across the scales after hot laps. I take the time to look at the weight read out myself just to be sure that nothing has changed. I especially do this if I go to different track with unfamliar scales. If I didn't go across the scale before my heat race and ended up light; sorry, nobody to blame but me! Besides, there were a number of so called "Allied outsiders" as you call them who were not light. Justin, you know I like you and your guys, but sorry fellas, this one is on you.

Brian #44
 
simple thing don't blame the messenger you didn't go across the scales early on and came up light after an event it happens
 
Never had a problem with the scales any other night.. just the night when our son had a good run and finished up front! Never did anything different to the car! NOTHING and it always scaled OK before .. AND after that night as long as he didn't he didn't finish up front! Strange very stange!
 
I was always told if you even think you might be light then ride the high side after a race and pack on some of that loose / wet stuff before you scale so you are heavy and scrape it off in the pits. That way your ok.
 
Momma Drew said:
Never had a problem with the scales any other night.. just the night when our son had a good run and finished up front! Never did anything different to the car! NOTHING and it always scaled OK before .. AND after that night as long as he didn't he didn't finish up front! Strange very stange!
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Im pretty sure BC or whatever track you are referring to did not wrongly DQ him because he "finished up front" I've been going to the races my entire life... I've saw officials make calls that I did not agree was the correct call, whether in our favor or against us... but to pretty much accuse a track of picking on a driver because they had a good finish is insane... maybe the reason he run so well was because he was so much lighter...

On another note I wasn't at I-55 but I agree with Jason... 4 pounds will not be a difference maker for passing 5 cars in a heat.. 40 pounds, probably.. but you can't get pissed at the track because your car did not meet the minimum requirement for weight... every car scaled on the same scales and were declared legal.. if half the field was shown as light then maybe you can point fingers... but rules and rules... the track officials were doing their jobs. I would be pissed if I were the 3rd place car and didn't get the 2nd place finish because an official let 4 pounds slide and my car was over the minimum weight...

.... And boom goes the dynamite!
 
out of time said:
Heres a better tip for you.....Don't run allied. they (allied) have been doing this for years to people who don't run with them on a weekly bases, thats what happens when you out run one of their boys. Just wondering how many people this has happened to through out the years...? By the way has anyone ever seen one of their boys light on the scales ? probably not.
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just hate it when track goes by the rules
 
My point WAS the scales could NOT have been accurate! Our car weighs in at EXACTLY 3200 lbs with the driver and NO fuel! Add the weight of the fuel and there was still SEVENTY FIVE pounds of EXTRA weight which made the car weigh 3275.. so how could he have possibly been 50 pounds LIGHT their scale showing 3150....! Please answer that question! The scales can be wrong with moving them from track to track. I don't care what anyone says they can BE wrong and they proved with with us! AND yes it was BC.!
 
drbrk said:
Maybe your scales were wrong?
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Kind of what I was thinking... whether the scales are right or wrong, they are the scales that everybody has to drive across... like stated above, it takes a few seconds to roll across the scales to see where you stand after hot laps.. not starting anything, its just everytime something happens at the track its always the tracks fault... like Feger's "inconclusive" tire results... it was blamed on the sewer treatment plant... everybody was on the same dirt and he is 1 of only 2 tire tests to come back out inconsistent of the benchmark sample... what does that say?? I like Jason as well as the other driver who was stripped of his SN win in 2011.. just had to use that as an example

...And boom goes the dynamite!
 
Momma Drew said:
My point WAS the scales could NOT have been accurate! Our car weighs in at EXACTLY 3200 lbs with the driver and NO fuel! Add the weight of the fuel and there was still SEVENTY FIVE pounds of EXTRA weight which made the car weigh 3275.. so how could he have possibly been 50 pounds LIGHT their scale showing 3150....! Please answer that question! The scales can be wrong with moving them from track to track. I don't care what anyone says they can BE wrong and they proved with with us! AND yes it was BC.!
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that's why get the car on the scale at the track when you can to make sure
 
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