Dennis,
You run NASA the way you want and we will run SFR Solo 2 the way we
want.
Like I said earlier: Lots of games in town, play the ones that you like, but
it would be nice if you had the facts before you criticize our program. I
surely don't criticize yours.
Bryan
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From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Dennis Hale
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 10:00 AM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: SFR Solo2 Annual Tech begins
Does this annual tech thing that requires 12 entries
in an otherwise not regionally required rule book
really save any extra effort for anyone?
Does the 12 entries start over each calendar year?
When the otherwise not required rulebook becomes
available each year? On big Johnson's birthday?
Why do the "special" techs need to be done seperately
and in addition to the standard one for those already
done for the day? Are there newly discovered risk
areas to be investigated?
Will the annual tech thing be good anywhere?
Everywhere?
An annual Roadrace tech is a one day thing. On a day
not otherwise busy with the running of an event. SCCA
knows how to set this up. It is done at the beginning
of the season. It uses a small, cheap, logbook that I
am pretty sure is made up by the region, not the fancy
and relatively inaccessible national book and it's
back cover. This book also is used to log all the
events the car is entered in.
This document also serves to grandfather in some
things that change over the years as the rules evolve.
Solo2 folks at least in the P & M classes could be
well served by this feature. But this seems missing
from this program. A stack of ten rule books with
sticky back pages seems not the same somehow...
Isn't that back cover still sold off as an
advertisement? You're going to paste in a log page
over it? Is that legal? 8-)
Annual Roadrace techs still require daily safety gear
inspections. You still gotta stand in a line. The tech
is about the car. It must be redone if any incident is
recorded in the log book at the previously attended
race. It is not exactly an annual tech.
Annual tech is not exactly what this Solo2 program
seems about. BUT it is already in the GCR rules and
could be adopted for use without any of the secret
handshake dance that is going on here! You really
could do a once a year thing and use simple logbooks.
Does anyone remember the "problem" and does this
program represent a "solution"?
I think the Solo2 tech process is looking mostly for
missing lugnuts and forgotten bowling balls in the
back seat. These are safety issues. Annual Roadrace
tech is largely looking for class compliance and
mechanical soundness. The daily safety issues remain
daily safety issues.
I guess I am just as glad my region is without those
"Experienced and responsible autocrossers" and is not
one of the chosen few to impliment this brave new
program.
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Dennis Hale
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