Aussie V8 team charged with rule breaches
TEGA (Touring Car Entrants Group Australia) chairman Kevin O'Reilly has called upon V8 Supercar series competitor Team Dynamik to answer allegations of 10 separate regulation breaches, outlined in an official report to TEGA and series governing body AVESCO. The team is accussed of having visited a remote airstrip in South Australia on August 20-21 to conduct an illegal test, with a disguised car and transporter
The team is charged with numerous offences including illegal testing under regulations, breaching tyre regulations and using illegal sensors.
"TEGA alleges that these breaches were not inadvertent but were intentional, and designed to gain a competitive advantage," said O'Reilly. "Team Dynamik will be required to answer allegations that it knowingly and wilfully and with intent to gain a competitive advantage and to gain additional data derived from testing activities without the utilisation of the allocated quota of test days, breached the following rules: testing rules D1.2, D 1.1.3.1, D1.3.1, D1.4.1, D1.9, D1.10., tyre rules C13.1.3, C13.10.2. technical compliance rule C3.1 and electronic data rule C14.11.2"
No date has been specified for a hearing. TEGA has confiscated the ECU from the team's Holden Commodore and claims to have eye witnesses and photographic evidence to back up its claims. No date for a hearing has yet been specified.
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