Mike,
They used to have the most accurate clocks which made their approval
necessary. Now they nod at our computer readouts and ask for a thousand
dollars and expenses. Who needs them? We have the expertise!
Wes
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> From: "Mike Jenkins" <MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk>
> To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>,"John Beckett"
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>,"Wester S Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>
> CC: "land-speed list" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Sanctioning
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:58:55 -0000
>
>List,
>
>I'm not sure Keith's argument as to 5 the five venues that run to
>SCTA/USFRA/ECTA/DRLA allow you to claim that your records are world
>records - after all we've got three current venues in the UK (Elvington,
>Bruntingthorpe & Pendine Sands) which are used for record breaking, and
>there are many others in the world which all run to FIA/FIM rules. I can
see
>why you have scrapped the 1hr turnaround for ease of running a meeting -
but
>on the other hand we used to have a regular records meeting in the UK which
>ran to FIA/FIM rules which only stopped due to problems with hiring the
>course.
>
>As far as the FIA not being the correct body to sanction land speed
records,
>they and their predecessors have been certifiying land speed records since
>before the First World War.
>
>Mike Jenkins
>
>
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