It sounds like the officials can use their discretion, which is fine as we will find out as we go along what's acceptable and what's not. I work with regulations as part of my work. Some are absolute, some are worded in such a way that a certain degree of ambiguity exists, some are multi applicable and can easily be interpreted differently and some are very poorly worded and confusion can easily follow. A lot are taken out of context also and an example in karting might be the one about not heating the tyres by any means. Clearly this is intended to prevent competitors gaining an unfair advantage but its application has to be given careful consideration, since leaving the kart in bright sunshine heats tyres compared to having the kart under the awning. By the letter of the rules the person without an awning will have warmer tyres but to suggest that not having an awning means a regulation has been breached is probably taking it too far. So going back to the original post, we have to try our luck and see what happens?
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