Guys, as much as I hate to resurrect this, I had a particularly interesting, yet simple idea brought up as we were tweaking the final wording of this rule (soon to be posted).
There has been interest in a less draconian penalty than a DQ, but the options that had come up so far, seemed impractical to implement.
The suggestion was to make the penalty for dyno non-compliance be a move to last place instead of a DQ. The competitor would then be forced to prove compliance before competing again. An option would be to make a second offense a DQ. The "move to last place" clause has a few advantages:
1) It does not end a season points run for one break out, but is still a fairly serious penalty.
2) It lessens the consequences of dyno variation.
2) It does not carry over into other events, which gets messy.
3) It still tightly controls the National Championships, where most of the podium contenders will likely be on that dyno (which lessens the dyno variation issue). A move to last place at Nationals might as well be a DQ. It makes one rule somewhat flexible - effectively a bit tougher at Nationals, than regionally.
4) It still forces competitors to tune down any over-achieving motors (especially if the second offense is a DQ), which is the ultimate goal.
With this consideration, we might also consider bringing the hard cap down to 138, instead of 140, as that number was picked in part because of the gravity of the penalty.
I am going to hunker down here - thoughts?