Arie,
Good point!
Wes
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> From: "ArieB" <ariebras@wxs.nl>
> To: "LSR list" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: On line chat topic
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:12:25 +0100
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>Hi all,
>I am not an active LSR participant, insofar that I neither have the
>technical knowhow nor the time to build my own car. I do admire and respect
>the effort, the work and ingenuity that goes into planning, building and
>running an LSR car. Whether this is for the FIA "absolute world speed
>record" or for a BNI/SCTA/ECTA "National Record" is completely immaterial.
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>I have a list of the history of the land speed record which splits up
around
>1963 into two separate lists of speed records (thrust and wheeldriven), and
>I have always wondered why in the early years some records were only
>recognized by the French (ACF), then only by the Americans (AAA) then only
>by.....
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>All this looked like to me was defending of the "territory" by these
>organisations, and it struck me more as being a political/chauvinist matter
>than a real difference in method or interpretation. This sort of thing is
>probably not as bad today as it used to be, but is "recognition" by these
>so-called authorities that important? I cannot find it so, but that is
maybe
>because as far as racing is concerned I am an outsider.
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>There is a need for rules and organisations like the FIA, but can we not
>treat them more like governements: a necessary evil!
>Arie
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