To: | "Dan" <dwarner@electrorent.com> |
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Subject: | Re: FIA |
From: | "dpulju" <dpulju@usintouch.com> |
Date: | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:38:03 -0700 |
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 > So why isn't someone in scta or usfra or ecta an fia rep to certify records??? dale suunny and 50 after rain and snow now on mountains in pahrump /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive/land-speed /// what is needed. It isn't that difficult, folks. |
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