Mike
So if your running FIA speed trials at Elvington, Bruntingthorpe & Pendine
Sands your basically stuck with only streamliners, right? Wouldn't it be a
whole lot more fun to be able to race lots of other classes as well? And
you'd attract a bunch more competition.
John Beckett, LSR #79
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Sanctioning
> 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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