[Fot] Lime Rock report

[rkramer3 at austin.rr.com]

Personal responsibility? Yes that is clearly vintage today's standards :( 

The lack of taking this stuff seriously puts us all at risk on the track next to folks that are reckless in one way or another (prep, driving etc) and in jeopardizing the existence of our sport. The costs of us taking the personal responsibility of  building safe cars and using proper safety equipment is manageable. The cost of skyrocketing insurance and track fees is probably not.

Bob Kramer
rkramer3 at austin.rr.com

---- billdentin at aol.com wrote: 
> <<< This is exactly the kind of thing that gets missed at lots of tech
> sessions!!
> ons of cars in line non-qualified people that get
> corralled/harangued into
> oing tech that aren't trained properly etc. If this
> plywood comment is true
> he organizational body could potentially have some
> liability, Waiver or not.
> f they have safety rules that require "X" and don't
> enforce it there are lots
> nd lots of sue happy people out there just looking
> for a payout.
> Take your own position and make sure YOU are doing all you can
> to make it safe
> o meet the rules or even better safer than the rules require.
> >>>
> Mark (et al)
> While I understand everything you've said and why you said
> it, what about
> some personal responsibility in the matter?  Racers and their
> support teams ought to
> have their feet held to the fire first.  They should be
> ensuring that the
> car they bring to an event to compete is safe in all
> respects.  The rules and 
> regulations are not secret.  I think you owe that to
> yourself, your fellow racers, 
> and the sanctioning body (in that order).  Most
> sanctioning bodies are paper thin
> financially, and do the best they can to
> staff events.
> Bill Dentinger
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