John told us what we could use and what not. He checked the cars and passed them - more than once during the race at random! This is a bit of fun, and let's face it you won't get any advantage from a bunch of ally screws. The Doris Team car was as stock as it could be with some attention paid to durability and set-up - see Jason's note above. If anyone else was using things that pushed the boundaries, fat lot of use it was to them - we won by hundreds of laps!!
I think John's discretion is perfectly fine as a set of Rules. The problem with a Rule Book is that it will take me no longer than the time to read it to find the loophole and make our car faster, better or lighter than anyone else's. I'd like to win on the track to John's Rules and not have every other team feel cheated because I am better with a Rule Book than they are. That is the fastest way to make sure that this event dies.
A benign dictatorship beats a democratic republic every time. Emperor John rules!!
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