The Gainesville winner was given a mild tear-down after the event, primarily due to the objections of the Trophy Stock racers as a group. Jamie Holten's car was not given any tear-down after winning at Atlanta other than the two of us being asked to remove the passenger's side kick panel to pull/inspect the computer.
Trophy Stock did a pretty good job of policing ourselves this year. We were trying to make sure that everyone was playing by ther rules. At Ennis, there was even a collective 'pooling' of the money to have the season champion torn-down to make sure he was getting the crown legally. Kevin took things in stride (especially since he wound up $250 richer) and everyone else was reassured that he was completely legal in winning the crown. We've got a good group of racers that are trying their best to play by the rules. People coming in next year can be reassured that we'll be scrutinizing them as well.
George is correct though in noting that the magazines may not be totally correct. They have a tendency to embellish the facts sometimes to make things more exciting to the reader. Personally, I'd rather have it noted that these guys have managed to push their 3300# Mustangs into the low 12's WITHOUT major head/intake porting. I think that's more impressive!
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Jeff Chambers
T/S #4
12.40 Seconds/109.5 MPH
http://www.kellnet.com/chambers/default.htm