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Ratickle
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One of the biggest battles for racing is what they can do with their reprogramming of the ECU's. Trying to stop cheaters is starting to cost a lot. Mercury redoes their encryption to try to stop that, but the companies who modify the programming just figure it out and modify it anyway.
It has hurt most motor sports by causing additional expenses to check every winner.
It has hurt most motor sports by causing additional expenses to check every winner.
Ratickle
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I'm a bit curious as to what Mercury will do? If they do not do something to try to stop these aftermarket modifications, which violate their pollution approval licenses, the Feds, and certainly states like California, will try to get their approvals eliminated.
I'm pretty sure they are marketing this for racing only, but obviously that is not where it will stay.
CLAIMS OF COMPETITION-USE ONLY The EPA has found that many companies that make and sell aftermarket defeat devices claim “competition only” use but cannot provide any information to show that their products are used solely in competition motorsports. The Clean Air Act does not contemplate removing emissions controls from an EPA-certified motor vehicle in order to convert it into a competition vehicle. As a matter of enforcement discretion, the EPA’s longstanding practice has been not to take enforcement action against vehicle owners for removing or defeating the emission controls of their EPA-certified motor vehicles, so long as they can show the vehicles are used solely for competition events and no longer driven on public roads. Recent EPA investigations have revealed evidence showing that hundreds of thousands of diesel pickup trucks have had their emissions controls completely removed, and most or all the aftermarket defeat devices used to tamper these trucks were sold under the claim of “competition only.” The sheer volume of aftermarket defeat devices belies the assertion that they are only for competition motorsports.
Rockwater Northeast LLC (Rockwater)n- one defendant has been sentenced to six months imprisonment. Rockwater agreed to pay a $2 million dollar penalty.
Select Energy Solutions, Inc., a Texas-based successor in interest to Rockwater, agreed to pay a $2.3 million dollar penalty.
Punch It Performance and Tuning, Michael Paul Schimmack, and affiliated companies and individuals. Under the settlement, the defendants must stop the manufacture and sale of all products that violate the Clean Air Act. They must also surrender the computer code and other intellectual property used in the illegal products, and they must stop providing technical and warranty support for the defeat devices already sold. Finally, the defendants must pay a civil penalty of $850,000.
The EPA doesn't screw around.
I'm pretty sure they are marketing this for racing only, but obviously that is not where it will stay.
CLAIMS OF COMPETITION-USE ONLY The EPA has found that many companies that make and sell aftermarket defeat devices claim “competition only” use but cannot provide any information to show that their products are used solely in competition motorsports. The Clean Air Act does not contemplate removing emissions controls from an EPA-certified motor vehicle in order to convert it into a competition vehicle. As a matter of enforcement discretion, the EPA’s longstanding practice has been not to take enforcement action against vehicle owners for removing or defeating the emission controls of their EPA-certified motor vehicles, so long as they can show the vehicles are used solely for competition events and no longer driven on public roads. Recent EPA investigations have revealed evidence showing that hundreds of thousands of diesel pickup trucks have had their emissions controls completely removed, and most or all the aftermarket defeat devices used to tamper these trucks were sold under the claim of “competition only.” The sheer volume of aftermarket defeat devices belies the assertion that they are only for competition motorsports.
Rockwater Northeast LLC (Rockwater)n- one defendant has been sentenced to six months imprisonment. Rockwater agreed to pay a $2 million dollar penalty.
Select Energy Solutions, Inc., a Texas-based successor in interest to Rockwater, agreed to pay a $2.3 million dollar penalty.
Punch It Performance and Tuning, Michael Paul Schimmack, and affiliated companies and individuals. Under the settlement, the defendants must stop the manufacture and sale of all products that violate the Clean Air Act. They must also surrender the computer code and other intellectual property used in the illegal products, and they must stop providing technical and warranty support for the defeat devices already sold. Finally, the defendants must pay a civil penalty of $850,000.
The EPA doesn't screw around.
I hear what you are saying but isn’t the whole concept of racing, no matter what form be it on land, water or air to be the fastest in the group? Protecting the classes by those that stay within the rules should be possibly DQing the cheaters and politely ask them to rum in some sort of run what you brung class.
Ratickle
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The problem is insurance. You cannot put on a race without insurance, the municipalities won't allow it, and you have to name them as additional insured. Also the Coast Guard won't allow it.
Then, the insurance companies insure to the rulebook. If you allow racers to violate the rules, and there is a serious accident, you are uninsured. So, by violating the rulebook, that is technically fraud, so then the promoters become the responsible parties, and there is no insurance. So, the promoters could be responsible for millions in legal damages for allowing the violations to occur.
At one time the insurance companies suggested they would allow no boats to exceed the Coast Guard maximum for HP based on their length, width, max HP rules. So, rules need to be enforced, because if they are not, there will be no more racing. This is the US, lots of attorneys.
Then, the insurance companies insure to the rulebook. If you allow racers to violate the rules, and there is a serious accident, you are uninsured. So, by violating the rulebook, that is technically fraud, so then the promoters become the responsible parties, and there is no insurance. So, the promoters could be responsible for millions in legal damages for allowing the violations to occur.
At one time the insurance companies suggested they would allow no boats to exceed the Coast Guard maximum for HP based on their length, width, max HP rules. So, rules need to be enforced, because if they are not, there will be no more racing. This is the US, lots of attorneys.
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