Things looking bleak for Team Dynamik

[fpv_gtho]

Its now confirmed by AVESCO that its Team Dynamik under investigation for illegal testing.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/l...nd=M&gid=12812

Team Dynamik to answer unprecedented 10 rule breaches

Release Date: 01/09/2004

South Australian-based Team Dynamik faces some of the most serious charges in the history of the V8 Supercar Championship Series with 10 separate breaches presented to stewards by the Touring Car Entrants Group Australia (TEGA) and AVESCO today.

TEGA Chairman Kelvin O’Reilly has lodged his report into the string of breaches which are alleged to have taken place at a remote airstrip in South Australia on Friday August 20 and Saturday August 21.

The team has been charged with numerous counts under the categories of alleged illegal testing, tyre regulations and using more than the specified numbers and types of sensors permitted.

“TEGA alleges that these breaches were not inadvertent but were intentional, and designed to gain a competitive advantage,” O’Reilly said in his official report.

“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 its 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;
Electronic Data Rule: C14.11.2 ”

The report also included that Team Dynamik:

• Drove more than six hours north of Adelaide to a remote location to conduct a testing activity
• Disguised their transporter by placing white vinyl over identifying team and sponsor marks
• Removed all external identifying marks on the car
• Installed an extensive range of illegal sensors.

TEGA and AVESCO will supply the inquiry with eye witness accounts and testimony of the breach, along with analysis of the data stored in the TEGA ECU confiscated from the car and tender photographic evidence of the activities being conducted.

AVESCO rules prescribe penalties including fines up to $250,000, loss of all points won and exclusion among other things if the allegations are proved.

[crisis]

And I read one of their drivers is in the shizenhausen too.

[fpv_gtho]

Well with possible disqualification of ALL points earnt this year and a fine of around $250000, could it get any worse? You wouldnt happen to know which driver that was would you, Dale Brede or Simon Wills?

[crisis]

Wills I think. I read about it in the same place where I saw the article you had, wherever that was now.

[fpv_gtho]

this is the first ive heard of anything specific to the drivers, wonder what its about....

[motorsportnerd]

All the reports I've seen (Auto Action & Motorsport News plus internet) suggest that Wills was the driver. He is, after all, the son of the team owner Kieran Wills. So, I guess that Wills may face penalties as well.

[fpv_gtho]

Well theres 10 rule breaches being investigated. Heaps of people seem to be talking about a suitable punishment, and whilst TEGA has said that they're able to give a fine of $250K and strip TD of all their championship points, i think exclusion from this years championship and a testing ban for next year would be fair. But then again, TD may not be around next year if all the sponsors bail out after this