Dan
Right on.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan" <dwarner@electrorent.com>
To: "land speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:21 AM
Subject: FIA
> Their role is to
> ensure that the reports from those the FIA have accepted as officials at
an
> FIA authorised speed record attempt are acceptable (quiet the person who
> said 'rubber stampers'......)
> ************************
>
> While I was going to sit back and let this subject run to the end, I must
> comment on Malcom's delusion that the FIA tech people who certify at the
World
> Finals are fully competent to do their assigned duties.
>
> I have been involved with three FIA sanctions at World Finals events and
in
> each case we have had a different person on site from the SCCA, a memebr
of
> the exalted ACCUS, to perform the steward duties required to certify a
> "World" record. Of the three only one was aware that records had been run
in
> Utah on the salt flats. He thought we had stopped doing this several years
in
> the past and was amazed that we were still doing it.
>
> None of the three knew the process to certify a record or had brought a
> current copy of the existing records. They had brought no tools with which
to
> measure an engine or regulations to certify the body of the vehicle. In
each
> case they accepted our tools and measuments. Their process to certifiy the
> record was to simply take a copy of our certificate and copy, or 'rubber
> stamp'(see above) the details into their report.
>
> For all this hard work the racers who competed for the FIA record had to
pay
> expenses for the steward plus fees. It takes a person like Louise to shake
the
> tree so that the people involved receive their just rewards. By reading
the
> mails in this thread and the ones in the past we can see how the FIA
regards
> the racer who complies to their strigent rules. If not for the work of
Louise
> the past few record setters would not be added to the FIA's record list.
How
> many in the past have never been recognized?
>
> So, on it goes - the FIA - who needs 'em?
>
> Dan Warner
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