November 16, 2015 –
The UNOH Myrtle Beach 400 held this past weekend at Myrtle Beach Speedway included a 100 lap event featuring many competitors from the Southeast Super Truck Series (SESTS).
While this event did utilize the rules used by the SESTS, neither the series administration or the series officials participated in this event. Series founder and owner, Jeff Myers, was in attendance in a consulting capacity only and had no decision making authority for any rules enforcement or race procedures.
At the conclusion of the event, the #12 truck driven by Cole Glasson was in the lead and was unofficially named the winner. In post-race technical inspection, however, Myrtle Beach Speedway officials made the determination that the winning truck did not meet the technical specifications outlined by the rulebook.
Based on that decision, the #12 truck of Cole Glasson was disqualified and declared not to be the winner of the event.
It is the opinion of the Southeast Super Truck Series administration that the #12 truck driven by Cole Glasson did meet all technical specifications of the SESTS rulebook.
Series owner, Jeff Myers commented on this situation stating, “The Southeast Super Truck Series had no authority in the management of the event this weekend at Myrtle Beach Speedway. The series fully supports its drivers and it is the determination of the series that the #12 truck was legal per the series rulebook and should have been declared the winner of the event. We look forward to a successful 2016 season and we will, as always, review the rules before the start of the season so that all teams have a full understanding of what is expected of them during all official series events.”
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JEFF I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU MADE THAT DETERMINATION WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE TRUCK. WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT THE SPRING WOULD NOT LET THE TRUCK CHASIS KEEP MOOVING DOWN. THE NOSE WAS NOT ON THE GROUND. I WENT BY YOUR RULE BOOK THAT STATES THAT ANYTHING THAT STOPS THE MOVEMENT OF THE CHASIS WOULD NOT BE LEGAL. YOU CAN CALL ME A LIAR IF YOU WANT TO BUT YOU ARE WRONG. I SLEPT GOOD SATURDAY NIGHT BECAUSE I MADE THE RIGHT CALL. IT DONT MATTER WHO IT WAS IF YOU ARE WRONG YOU ARE WRONG. MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
I would be willing to bet you found a bunch of spring rubber cut up in the bottom of the spring cup to allow the truck to come down on it like a bump stop. That us what was found at Anderson earlier this year which they claimed the spring rubber come apart. Would like to know if that is true
Mike,
The reason the nose would not touch the track was that the body was beat to death at the last TriCounty race 2 weeks ago rubbing the bottom 1 1/2″ lip off the nose, we reused the nose. To my knowledge it never touched any of your race track, Didn’t know it needed to. With 8 people (1600 lbs+) on the nose, the cross member and suspension were on the ground, it simply could not go any further. In addition, the 1″ + area on the coil that dented the tape at that point can not possibly hold the chassis up when the are 1/4″ gaps in every other coil. You know that. But you refused to check it any another way (offered 3 ways or however you wanted) to verify your opinion that the spring was binding chassis and you refused. Wrong call.
Martin
Ithink the 12 truck should not have been disqualified because that truck has been legal all year and that’s the same nose they have ran all year
The nose has nothing to do with it. The truck was junk all weekend until they desided to coil bind it in qualifying, Which worked well. Late in the race, if any one watched, it was all corner speed which would be heavy wheel load which in turn coil bind
Jeff there are to many tracks that you can run your series at you dont need to go back there the treatment will be the same as long as the skunk is there. Low class operation.