I concur with Loren. I have an eleven year old daughter and a 9 year old
son who are going to be disappointed. Plus our local club was going to
"adopt" our cub scout den and introduce them to AutoX. While children 8-11
can "behave" well for 1-2 minutes, they aren't willing to sit in a parking
lot or airport runway for 8 hours just watching. We want our children
involved.
As children come in many sizes (my son and daughter are both taller than
their mother), the age becomes somewhat arbitrary from a safety standpoint.
I think the age of eight is a good number. Let's make AutoX a family sport.
~ Ken Stolz (A Fiero Guy)
Missoula, MT
kstolz@selway.umt.edu (The University of Montana)
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87 GT Auto (with 50K miles 88 V-6 by Ed Parks) - getting complete original
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-----Original Message-----
From: Loren Williams [mailto:Loren@kscable.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 6:32 AM
To: autox list
Subject: Re: Fw: October Fastrack
John Lieberman wrote:
> Now that Nationals are over, both the SSC and the SEB plan to re-visit
> Item 1 and put it back out for member comment once we're done. If you
> or any other team-dot-netters have any suggestions, I'd be more than
> happy to present them to the committee.
>
> Hope that helps.
All I can say is that my 9-year-old son is going to be very disappointed if
he doesn't get to ride with Dad next season. If there is no law
prohibiting an 8-year-old from riding in the front seat of a car on the
street (and there isn't, most laws are for 4-years-old and younger), I
don't believe there should be an SCCA rule prohibiting it. Nothing is
going to happen on that autocross course that couldn't happen on the
street.
I do think that the rule should be carefully written. 8-year-old kids are
mature enough to sit still for the average autocross run without
distracting the driver too much. (unless you're distracted by "Wow!"
"Cool!") I would stipulate, as we have in our regional supps, that if
there is a minor passenger in the car that there can be only one passenger.
(actually, we made this an across-the-board rule: only one passenger at a
time in any car) This will eliminate the possibility of a pair of young
kids whooping it up while the driver is trying to concentrate on driving.
To recap:
a) Allow 8-year-old passengers with proper belts and helmets
b) Only one passenger per vehicle
That's my 2 cents.
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Loren Williams | Loren@kscable.com
'94 Saturn SC2 | Wichita Region SCCA - http://www2.southwind.net/~scca
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