Honda Cheats!

Carbon K · #1 03-09-2008, 07:07 AM

To win the daytona 200

Hayes Disqualified From Daytona 200 For Illegal Crankshaft Modifications
Mar 08, 2008

Copyright 2008, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

From a press release issued by AMA Pro Racing at 10:50 p.m. Eastern Time:

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Josh Hayes was disqualified from today’s Daytona 200 following a customary and mandatory technical inspection of the top three finishers’ motorcycles in the Daytona 200, round one of the AMA Formula Extreme Series.

Upon this inspection, a technical infraction was found. The #1 Erion Racing Honda CBR600RR’s crankshaft was polished, surface treated and metal was removed from it. This is in violation of the 2008 AMA rulebook section 5.4, the text of which can be seen below.

Page 47: Rulebook Section 5.4
5.4 Multi-cylinder liquid cooled engines The following engine components may not be altered from the originally homologated model except as noted:

b. Homologated crankshaft
1. Bearing surfaces may be polished or surface treated.

In addition, two other motorcycles were randomly picked to undergo technical inspections.

**04upon1** · #2 03-09-2008, 04:20 PM

Hondas going to have a rough go of it this year in AMA, Duhamel rode damn near the whole thing by the time AMA black flagged his ass for the bike swap

resuscit8u · #3 03-09-2008, 08:38 PM

Bad timing for Honda with Jim Rashid in the tech inspection position. Expect a lot more people to get busted and expect Suzuki to finally get what has been coming to them for years as well.

**07SLVRCBR** · #4 03-10-2008, 06:21 AM

If ya ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin.
Only the dummies get caught.

resuscit8u · #5 03-10-2008, 07:17 AM

You would have to be very sharp to get one over on Rashid.

**-Ace-** · #6 03-10-2008, 05:18 PM

My question is how did they know about the crank? Did they make them pull the engine or what?

#7 03-11-2008, 06:25 AM

Yeah, I was surprised as well. Do they completely break the bike down for post inspection?

Also, what about 2nd or 3rd place?

**04upon1** · #8 03-11-2008, 08:37 AM

Yes

UalRamper · #9 03-11-2008, 08:48 AM

Sick...........................................

**07SLVRCBR** · #10 03-11-2008, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by resuscit8u

You would have to be very sharp to get one over on Rashid.

That's good news. Assuming he stays unbiased and fair towards all colors, this could be a good year.

DemonRR · #11 03-11-2008, 07:02 PM

yeah, WTF were they thinking????

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