For once Linnhoff and I agree 100%.
Regards,
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Linnhoff <eric10mm@qni.com>
To: mailing list autox <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Peru Pro (a bit long)
>Some driver mistakes were made,
>>cars touched, but it was decided that the event go on. Changing the
>>course was not a viable option.
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>I fully expect to get flamed for this, so go to it guys.
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>Coming from a SSS viewpoint, the above attitude is TOTAL BULLSHIT and
>against the rules.
>
>Changing a course absolutely IS an (required) option if there is a viable
>safety concern, such as after several incidents, or accidents as the case
>may be, have already occurred.
>
>If it means having to totally cancel the rest of the event (as a ProSolo
>format would have to do due to the format) then dammit, that's what MUST be
>done. There is absolutely NO excuse for continuing an event just because
>"it'd cause too many headaches to change it midstream".
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>What a crock. Read the rulebook folks. Unsafe events CAN NOT be allowed
to
>continue under any circumstances. It's in there several times. You
>accepted the rules when you signed your membership applications.
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>If this (unsafe course design) is a normal occurance at ProSolo events, and
>continues to be propogated by simpletons who don't want to change "because
>it might upset people or cause delays" then I will surely never attend them
>and those people deserve whatever happens to them and their equipment.
>
>I am not at all sorry for this rant. Y'all better wake up. We absolutely
>cannot afford to shoot ourselves in our collective foot by continuing such
>complete and utter nonsense.
>
>Eric Linnhoff in KC
>#69DS TLS #13
>'98 Neon R/T
><eric10mm@qni.com>
>
>Education is neither intelligence nor wisdom. An educated
>fool can always find a philosophy to justify his folly.
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>I have no idea who originally said this. But I like it.
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